Re: Release questions...

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 8/9/05, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> > > I have a python script that takes the current jhbuild gnome release
> > > moduleset (i.e. gnome-2.12.modules for now) and automatically creates a
> > > tarball version of that moduleset including dependencies (i.e.
> > > gnome-2.11.91.modules and freedesktop-2.11.91.modules) and a versions
> > > file (for use with the release scripts) by doing lots of searching on
> > > the web for the latest tarball releases of all the relevant modules.
> >
> > Urk. Shouldn't you be able to walk the ftp server for that, instead of
> > searching the web?
> 
> (You can also do parts of it by grepping your ftp-release-list mails.)

Has the same problems that walking /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources or
ftp.gnome.org has--doesn't get everything.  :-)