check-mirrors: Use ncftpget(1) instead of curl(1)

Some of our FTP mirrors seem to have trouble with active mode, others
with passive mode.  Unlike curl(1), ncftpget(1) supports falling back to
active mode if passive mode fails.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bin/check-mirrors b/bin/check-mirrors
index d3fcfe9..ab343e0 100755
--- a/bin/check-mirrors
+++ b/bin/check-mirrors
@@ -264,14 +264,14 @@ for mirror in $mirrors
 do
         url="${mirror%/}/timestamp"
 
-        if curl -s -S -O -P '-' -m 600 --retry 2 --ftp-method 'nocwd' "$url" \
-            >'curl.log' 2>&1
+        if ncftpget -V -t 600 "$url" >'ftp.log' 2>&1
         then
                 cmp -s 'expected' 'timestamp' \
                     || echo >&2 "$mirror is outdated ($(cat 'timestamp'))."
         else
-                echo >&2 "Cannot fetch $url: $(cat 'curl.log')"
+                tail -n 1 'ftp.log' >&2
         fi
+        rm -f 'timestamp'
 done
 cd "$OLDPWD"
 date '+%F' >"$download_dir/timestamp"