On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" writes: > > On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 12:34 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > >> Currently I cannot upload big packages from my internet connection (its > >> reasonably good broadband in my area/India) because dput times out (its > >> a mess to clean that). I have to scp every time to a server and dput > >> from there because scp is more resilient to connection breaks. > >> > >> If dput allowed using sftp, I could avoid this extra step. Please > >> consider adding sftp option. > >> > > > > (I imagine you simply want to use the "scp" method in dput.cf, but I'll > > leave that to the maintainers in case I'm missing something.) > > dput seems to already support rsync which is probably a good choice when > one has connection problems as it should support continuing the upload. > > I haven't used the `rsync` method so far though and there doesn't seem > to be a ready-to-use entry in the default dput.cf.
Also, you could upload using scp (see the `ssh-upload` target in dput),
which is arguably even better than sftp.
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