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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>> 3 - the package-source url (<a href="http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/" target="_blank">http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/</a>)<br>> used to be visible with package directories but now it is forbidden. This<br>
> page provides a point for a crawler to mirror the packages. Can we make it<br>> (and the children path) visible again?<br><br></div>I think I've fixed that, thanks.<br></blockquote>
<div>Okay - now that I have sometime playing with it, it appears that the current package-source is insufficient for mirroring purposes. </div>
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<div>While I now can crawl the repository, I then would have to pass the right "lang" version in order to download the package via the planet API - this would require guessing, or iterate through all lang versions across all paths, which is obviously inefficient.</div>
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<div>Is there a possibility that the underlying package can be exposed via some url so they can be mirrored without using the lang value? </div>
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<div>I am assuming the packages are held somewhere on the hard drive that are closely related to the package-source directory, so I am assuming exposing the link is a minimal work. If this assumption is not true, let me know, and I will implement the brute force approach until planet can be adjusted for lang-less download. </div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>yc</div></div>