Script to automate offline retrieval of distfiles etc, for internet challenged machines

[Dixon, Stephen]

Hi everyone, first post...

I've been trying for a while to get the IT department at work to open up port 873 so that macports could work there, but to no avail. Then I saw a post on the mailing list that explained how to collect the distfiles and other stuff needed to run macports without an internet connection.

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2009-January/013619.html

The problem with that process was if the package you wanted to install had a big dependency tree you had to repeat it many times untill you'd got all the dependencies.

So I've written an applescript that recursively looks through a package's dependencies and downloads them for easy copying to the non-internet connected machine. It's available here
http://stib.posterous.com/
Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. I'm merely a hacker with no formal training, so sometimes my code can be a little rough and ready.

Stephen Dixon
Digital Video Officer
Museum Victoria
ph +61 3 8341 7588

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