Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of AlternateDistClientQuickstart

Timestamp:

Feb 26, 2010, 1:18:36 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

welling

Comment:

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AlternateDistClientQuickstart

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+= Quick-Start Guide for update_mirror.py =
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 This page describes 'update_mirror.py', which is an alternative datastore download mechanism (in contrast to the official IPP PanTasks-based mechanism).  This is just the quick start; the full instructions are on the wiki page [wiki:AlternateDistributionClient An Alternate Data Distribution Client]
 
 To get started using update-mirror, take the following steps:
 
--Save update_mirror.py and parse_config.py somewhere in your PATH.  I keep
- my copy in ~/bin, since I added my ~/bin directory to my PATH long ago.
+* Save update_mirror.py and parse_config.py somewhere in your PATH.  I keep
+  my copy in ~/bin, since I added my ~/bin directory to my PATH long ago.
 
--Edit update_mirror.py to set two things:
+* Edit update_mirror.py to set two things:
 
-   1) Change mirrorRootDir to be the path to the directory where
+   1. Change mirrorRootDir to be the path to the directory where
       you want to keep the downloaded tree of data files.
-   2) Change desiredProductList to be a list of the data distributions
+   1. Change desiredProductList to be a list of the data distributions
       you want.  For example, if you want medium deep image files you
       want ps1-md; if you only want medium deep catalogs you want ps1-md-cat.
 
--Run it.  A good format for the command is:
+* Run it.  A good format for the command is:
 
    nice nohup update_mirror.py >& update_mirror_stdout.log &