From 2c3c84366d7fc9fe89fe59e68cf46474a69c15c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Watson" <urchlay@slackware.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:43:01 -0400
Subject: Use a custom wgetrc.

---
 TODO     |  8 ++++----
 greypool | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 8564ace..32383fc 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 TODO list for greypool
 
-- use custom wgetrc.
-
 - handle ^C gracefully during wget downloads.
 
 - improve the interactive config:
@@ -12,8 +10,10 @@ TODO list for greypool
 
 - there's a bug I haven't looked for yet that causes the list to
   be incomplete occasionally. Pretty sure this happens if an ignored
-  package comes at the end of a JSON file. The packages listed in each
-  file are in random order so it's hard to trigger on purpose.
+  package comes at the end of a JSON file. The packages listed in
+  each file are in random order so it's hard to trigger on purpose. I
+  may have already fixed this by changing how the ignore list is
+  implemented...
 
 - de-uglify and refactor the code. it's a mess.
 
diff --git a/greypool b/greypool
index 566f70f..a34be32 100755
--- a/greypool
+++ b/greypool
@@ -84,8 +84,35 @@ sub parse_opts {
 	fatal "extra junk on the command line after '$email'" if @ARGV;
 
 	$color_output = -t STDOUT unless defined $color_output;
-	$privdir = $ENV{HOME} . "/.greypool/" unless defined $privdir;
+	$privdir = $ENV{HOME} . "/.greypool" unless defined $privdir;
 	$config_file = $privdir . "/config";
+	$wgetrc = $privdir . "/wgetrc";
+}
+
+sub create_wgetrc {
+	return if -e $wgetrc;
+	info "$wgetrc doesn't exist, creating";
+	open my $f, ">$wgetrc" || fatal "can't create $wgetrc: $!\n";
+	print $f <<EOF;
+# $wgetrc
+
+# wget settings for greypool(1). See wget(1) for full details.
+
+# It's entirely possible to break greypool's ability to download
+# files, if you mangle this config file. If all else fails, you
+# can delete this file and greypool will create a default one
+# next time it runs.
+
+# repology.org requires a user-agent that identifies the client.
+# You probably shouldn't change this.
+user-agent = $user_agent
+
+# repology.org supports gzip compression, and JSON compresses well.
+# Enable by default.
+compression = gzip
+
+EOF
+	close $f;
 }
 
 # perl replacement for shell's "mkdir -p".
@@ -106,7 +133,7 @@ sub mkdir_p {
 sub get_repo_list {
 	print "Getting repo list\n";
 	open my $f,
-		"wget -qO- --user-agent '$user_agent' " .
+		"wget --config=$wgetrc -qO- " .
 		'https://repology.org/repositories/statistics' .
 		'|';
 	fatal "failed to run wget: $!\n" unless $f;
@@ -391,7 +418,6 @@ sub check_cache {
 	}
 }
 
-# wget -O repo3.json --user-agent Ruby 'https://repology.org/api/v1/projects/doomseeker/?maintainer=urchlay%40slackware.uk&status=outdated&repo=slackbuilds'
 sub make_api_url {
 	my $lastpkg = shift;
 	my $url = "https://repology.org/api/v1/projects/";
@@ -419,13 +445,13 @@ sub download {
 
 	my $cmd =
 		"wget " .
+		"--config=$wgetrc " .
 		"$qopt " .
 		"-O $filename " .
-		"--user-agent '$user_agent' " .
 		"'$url'";
 
 	info $cmd;
-	my $status = system("cmd");
+	my $status = system($cmd);
 	if($status) {
 		fatal "wget failed, exit status " . ($status >> 8);
 	}
@@ -557,6 +583,7 @@ sub colorize {
 
 parse_opts();
 read_config_file();
+create_wgetrc();
 check_cache();
 generate_report();
 stamp_cache();
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