"Advanced WPKG" (WAS: Re: [wpkg-users] MD5 hash)

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

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



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