Jerry Haltom wrote: > I actually considered this a long time ago. Simple solution is to bundle > rsync with wpkg and allow one to specify a remote rsync location to > retrieve packages. When this attribute exists, wpkg simply syncs a local > temp directory with the specified one (perhaps resuming where it left > off), and when complete, issues the install command. > > That rsync location can be either a single file off http, which rsync > already supports, or an rsync server hosting many software installs... > or even a smb path, which rsync would just copy from. Wpkg doesn't have > to implement anything protocol specific at all. Does rsync really support http? I see no reference in rsync documentation that it does (as of version 2.6.7, which is also the newest). -- Tomasz Chmielewski wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users |