RE: Development snapshot tarball?

[Eric Young <thatguy@bumail.bradley.edu>]

Perhaps you could try the wget utility from GNU
(http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html)
to access CVSWeb.  It has the option for recursive downloads and the options
to specify which directories to recurse on (so you don't try to download
other things).

Disclaimer:  I haven't actually used it, just seen people recommend it for
other things
similar to this.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Cedric Tefft [SMTP:shadrack@rocketmail.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 29, 2000 6:49 PM
> To:	openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject:	Development snapshot tarball?
> 
> Greetings, all --
>  
> I have been lurking for a couple of weeks and would like to start
> contributing to OpenLDAP development, but I have one pretty major obstacle
> standing in the way.  It seems that the development version is available
> only through CVS.  Unfortunately, my Internet access is heavily
> firewalled, and I can only do HTTP and single-file FTP retrieval, so CVS
> (and CVSup for that matter) will not work for me.
>  
> From what I can tell, downloading an entire source tree through CVSWeb
> would involve riding the web browser for hours and hours -- downloading
> each file individually.  That would be such a fantastically
> labor-intensive process that it just isn't practical.
>  
> So my question is, is there some kind of daily or weekly snapshot of the
> CVS repository available in a single file (tarball or similar format) that
> I could download through web or web-proxied FTP transfer?  If there are no
> such snapshots, would it be possible to set up such a thing?  Or maybe
> there is some other quick 'n easy method to get the latest development
> version that I'm not aware of?
>  
> Oh, and before everybody suggests the obvious workarounds ... no, I don't
> have any other Internet access, I don't control the firewall/proxy
> configurations, and I can't influence the people who do.  In short, I
> either do this through HTTP (or web-proxied FTP) or I don't do it at all.
>  
> 
> - Cedric
>  
>