Made it automatically detect the URL of the mirrorlist by parsing a repo index

page.

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch2parabola b/arch2parabola
index e2e9118..1acddd4 100755
--- a/arch2parabola
+++ b/arch2parabola
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # (C) Joshua Ismael Haase Hernández 2010
 # Copyright © 2011 Joseph Graham
+
 # This script is free software! You can do what you want with it, as long as
 # you don't convert it into proprietary software and if you redistribute it
 # either vertabim or modified you must do so under the same licence.
@@ -9,14 +10,24 @@
 # Set this to the URL of the blacklist.
 blacklist_url="http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt"
 
+# Set this to the url of the index page which will be parsed to find out the
+# url of the mirrorlist.
+repo_index_page="http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/core/os/any/"
+
+# Set this to the package name of Parabola's mirrorlist (excluding the version
+# number).
+parabola_mirrorlist_package_name="pacman-mirrorlist-libre"
+
+# Set this to the package name of Arch's default kernel (excluding the version
+# number).
+arch_default_kernel_package_name="kernel26"
+
 # Make a temporary directory.
 tempdir=$(mktemp -d)
 
 # This will be the name of the log file.
 logname="$(pwd)/arch2parabola$(date +%Y%m%d).log"
 
-mirror=""
-
 # These are the dependencies of the script.
 dependancies=(which date pacman wget seq sed wget test)
 
@@ -75,12 +86,21 @@ function if_cancelled
     fi
 }
 
+# This is an SGML parser function. It reads tags in the same way that `read'
+# reads lines. The element is assigned to var `element' and the content is
+# assigned to var `content'.
+function rdom
+{
+    local IFS=\>
+    read -d \< element content
+}
+
 section=" ---------- Sanity Check ----------"
 
 declare issues=0
 
 # If the user is not root then error and exit.
-(( EUID )) && { echo "This script should be run as root user" ; exit 1 ; }
+(( EUID )) && { echo "This script should be run as root user." ; exit 1 ; }
 
 # Check if the dependencies are available. This won't be needed if this
 # script is packaged.
@@ -94,7 +114,7 @@ do
 done
 
 # Check if the system is running a custom kernel.
-if ! pacman -Q kernel26 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+if ! pacman -Q ${arch_default_kernel_package_name} >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 then
     issues="1"
     cat >> ${logname} << EOF
@@ -167,10 +187,17 @@ then
     abort
 fi
 
-################################################################################
-########################## The mirror var is not set! ##########################
-################################################################################
+# This piece of code automatically detects the url of the mirrorlist and puts
+# it in the var `mirror'.
+while rdom
+do
+    if [[ ${element%%[[:space:]]*} == "a" ]]
+    then mirror="$(echo ${element##*[[:space:]]} | cut -d\" -f 2 | grep \
+	"${parabola_mirrorlist_package_name}-")"
+    fi
+done <<< "$(curl "${repo_index_page}")"
 
+# Install the mirrorlist.
 if ! pacman -U --noconfirm ${mirror} >> ${logname} 2>> ${logname}
 then
     cat >> ${logname} << EOF