wget & --exclude-directories

Tinkster · 07-10-2003, 07:59 PM

Hi Guys!

Not exactly a Slackware-question,
but I thought you guys would be the
most likely to understand what I'm up to :)

I want to "roll my own" Slack 8.1 install-CD,
and for that I wanted to get most of the bits
& pieces from one of the mirrors ...

I seem to be to stupid to my wget -command
right...

Whatever I did - it ends up d/ling stuff I didn't
want. After some googling I found that -X wants
the full path(s) that you don't want (which I find
quite awkward)...

Code:

wget -r -np -X /public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/bootdisks,/public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/zipslack,/public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/source,/public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/pasture,/public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/extra http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/p...slackware-8.1/

Any ideas what else to try?

Cheers,
Tink

Noryungi · 07-11-2003, 04:48 AM

Do the reverse: put everything that you *want* to download in a file and launch wget, giving it that file as an argument.

Here is what I did recently:

Code:

wget --no-directories --output-file=wget.log --verbose --tries=5 --input-file=download.txt

In the file named "download.txt", I just wrote down everything that I wanted to download.

Does this help?

tobyl · 07-11-2003, 12:11 PM

Or maybe a perusal of the swaret code might come up with something - I know there are exclude options in it

Tinkster · 07-20-2003, 08:30 PM

K, I have my Slackware 8.1 directories on HDD,
thanks guys :)

Now, the next step: how (where?) do I modify the
setup-script? I've understood the concept of the
tagfiles, and how to use them in an (semi-)automated
installation, but would like to go further ... :)

Googling (and google/groups) didn't help a lot. :}

Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster · 07-20-2003, 10:02 PM

Never mind, googled some more ;)

Blessed be that thesaurus :D

Cheers,
Tink