[wpkg-users] [Bug 195] download hangs and wpkg is halted

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http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195

--- Comment #3 from Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org>  ---
I have just commited a new tool to SVN called "downloader". It is supposed to
serve exactly the purpose of downloading files using a much more sophisticated
method.

It's using wget to fetch files and it can verify checksums using md5sum.exe and
sha1sum.exe.

If you want to test it feel free to get it from SVN. It will be included in
future WPKG release packages too.

<http://wpkg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wpkg/wpkg/stable/1.2/tools/downloader/>

A detailed readme file including instructions how to install it and all
dependencies (3rd party tools are not included to avoid license issues).

An example package is included in the readme too.
Basically you can call downloader.cmd from any install/upgrade/downgrade/remove
command. The syntax is as follows:

downloader.cmd <download-url> <target> [MD5] [SHA1]

Checksum parameters are optional. So you can also use downloader without any
checksum verification just to get more stable downloads via wget (even though
you might also call wget.exe directly in this use-case).

I am not sure how much support I will provide for this script as the user base
will be very small. Let's get some feedback from users first.


I am leaving report at "WONTFIX" as I don't want to fix this in WPKG internally
- and honestly speaking I think it will not even be possible to do the same
thing downloader provides.

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