Add check-version.sh script

check-version.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+URL="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/"
+
+# Get version number from FTP server
+VERSION=$(curl -s --list-only "$URL" | grep -E '^mtools-[0-9]{1,}\.[0-9]{1,}(\.[0-9]{1,})?.tar.gz$' | cut -d '-' -f2 | sort -V | tail -n1)
+
+# Remove '.tar.gz' suffix from VERSION variable
+VERSION=${VERSION//.tar.gz/}
+
+echo "$VERSION"

source.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # BPM Expects the source code to be extracted into the automatically created 'source' directory which can be accessed using $BPM_SOURCE
 # BPM Expects the output files to be present in the automatically created 'output' directory which can be accessed using $BPM_OUTPUT
 
-DOWNLOAD="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-${BPM_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+DOWNLOAD="https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-${BPM_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
 FILENAME="${DOWNLOAD##*/}"
 
 # The prepare function is executed in the root of the temp directory