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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Hammond <[email protected]>
Cc: CAJ CAJ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:36:10 +0100
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Andrew Hammond wrote:
> On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given
>> > major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to
>> connect to ftp
>> > (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting
>> > hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches
>> > feel quite awkward to me.
>>
>> Use wget to download via  HTTP (added recently).  Probably wise to add a
>> couple mirrors in your script.
> 
> I'm not asking how to download stuff. I'm asking how to figure out the
> current release number for a given major.minor. I thought that was
> clear in my original post, but I guess not. For example, how do I
> determine (programmatically) the lastest version of 8.1.

Currently you can't without parsing pages.

> I'm also interested in a clever way to select one of the "close"
> mirrors at random for downloading via http. However I had planned to
> hold that question until I'd solved the first issue.

You might find this of use: http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors.xml. It's
updated regularly, so the mirrors should all have test OK within the
last 48 hours.

Regards, Dave.

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