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From: CAJ CAJ <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Hammond <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:26:12 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

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.

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