On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM, <Paul_Koning@dell.com> wrote:
On Aug 3, 2012, at 3:18 PM, enh wrote:
i switched Android's script from bash to python last month just to deal with FTP more conveniently:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/5d967e43d03e9c916548b9c29...
anyone who's looking for the three[-ish] lines of python can search for
'nlst' in this change: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/5d967e43d03e9c916548b9c29...
Cool.
I don't think you need to retrieve intermediate files, if you're several files behind. Everything is cumulative, so the latest is always sufficient.
i do that for my own benefit, so when people want to know when we last updated some particular zone, i can go through the check-in comments to find out. (sure, a real tool would be better, and checking in the corresponding non-compiled tzdata source files might be a good idea too, but in the absence of that...)
does anyone have any good ideas about programmatically doing something
about verifying the PGP signatures?
There's python-gnupg and pypgp, both of which look like wrappers around the command line tool. You can do likewise with the Subprocess module, of course.
Presumably it could be done with pycrypto, I'm not sure if anyone has already done the legwork. It's probably not hard, but pycrypto is a crypto API, so doing PGP things would mean some extra code on top of that basic API to do the PGP specific processing.
i don't seem to have any of those in my python installation so i'm probably stuck with Subprocess.