[Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

[William Harrington]

On Sep 3, 2012, at 09:45 AM, William Harrington wrote:

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> On Sep 2, 2012, at 22:04 PM, William Harrington wrote:
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>> Or use the host used to build the final system and use this  
>> wget.pl  with the LWP installed on the host:  which means the host  
>> system requirements would need perl with LWP:
>
> Actually the host wouldn't need WLP, the user would need to use  
> PERL's cpan utility or manually install the LWP. And this wouldn't  
> work too well as I think Perl's cpan command line utility needs a  
> download client, hehe. Cause it has to download perl modules. I'm  
> going to verify this with my new shiny Pure 64 Sparc64 build. i'll  
> rename the wget binary for now and test this.

Okay it looks like the perl install from final system has HTTP::Tiny  
and uses that to download with.

So the user can actually use the cpan client and manually configure  
it, choose a cpan mirror to download modules from, and then install  
LWP. Or any other module they want and write a program to download  
files. Awesome.

Or just use a script to use HTTP::Tiny!

Sincerely,

William Harrington