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

[Jerry Haltom]

Hmm. I sure thought it did. Doesn't look like it though.

I might question the actual necessity of distributing software over HTTP
though, because you wouldn't get the cool benefits of resuming where you
left off, and software is generally big. Also, you can only do one file
at a time, not recurse an entire directory, which would defiantly make
it useless for a whole lot of installs. And if you've got even a single
installs it doesn't work for, you're not going to be able to use it.

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:37 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 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).
> 
>