[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Automated Sword module packaging: it works

[Daniel Glassey]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>> NOTE: Please do *not* run package-modules.sh if you do not intend to
>> work on this stuff, as it will download around 270MB of modules from
>> Crosswire the first time you run it.  The Crosswire archive does not
>> seem to have an obvious way to download just the metadata (just the
>> *.conf files), so one can then download only the Public Domain
>> modules... so the script downloads all of them, but then only builds the
>> PD ones.  If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
>
> The install manager works from FTP repositories, and will download
> conf files only to show you what is available (in general, anyway).
> There is a command line install manager tool, installmgr, and it looks
> like installmgr -rl (list remote sources) will give you what you want.
>  I'm afraid I can't get mine to spit out a usage message, so I'm
> working from the source code here, but it looks like that is what it
> does, and it would I assume only get the .conf files (in fact, some
> repos are set up to have all the conf files in one tarball, meaning
> only one download).

The file you are looking for is:
ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/raw/mods.d.tar.gz

HTH,
Daniel