#!/usr/bin/env python # # get_debian_mirrors.py # # Download the latest list with available mirrors from the Debian # website and extract the hosts from the raw page # # Copyright (c) 2006, 2009 Free Software Foundation Europe # # Author: Sebastian Heinlein # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as # published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the # License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 # USA import urllib2 import re import os import commands import sys # the list of official Ubuntu servers mirrors = [] # path to the local mirror list list_path = "../data/templates/Debian.mirrors" req = urllib2.Request("http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full") match = re.compile("^.*>([A-Za-z0-9-.\/_]+)<\/a>.*\n$") match_location = re.compile('^

.*') match_sites = re.compile('^Site: ([A-Za-z0-9-.\ \/_,]+)<\/tt>.*\n$') def add_sites(line, proto, sites, mirror_type): path = match.sub(r"\1", line) for site in sites: mirror_type.append("%s://%s%s\n" % (proto, site.lstrip(), path)) try: print "Downloading mirrors list from the Debian website..." uri=urllib2.urlopen(req) for line in uri.readlines(): if line.startswith('

Packages over HTTP'): add_sites(line, "http", sites, mirrors) elif line.startswith('
Packages over FTP'): add_sites(line, "ftp", sites, mirrors) uri.close() except: print "Failed to download or to extract the mirrors list!" sys.exit(1) print "Writing local mirrors list: %s" % list_path list = open(list_path, "w") for mirror in mirrors: list.write("%s" % mirror) list.close() print "Done."