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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:26:12 -0700
From: "CAJ CAJ" <pguser@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Hammond" <andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor
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On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond <
andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com> 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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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Hammond</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com">andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I&#39;m writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given<br>major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing
<br><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/">http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/</a> or trying to connect to ftp<br>(which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting<br>hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches
<br>feel quite awkward to me.</blockquote><div><br>Use wget to download via&nbsp; HTTP (added recently).&nbsp; Probably wise to add a couple mirrors in your script.<br></div><br></div><br>

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