Idk if this an "official" item on the ROADMAP, but having support for 30+ diff redirects in RPMIO "would" be a nice feature, useful to "us" hobbyists". Especial redirects from sourceforge or googlecode.
Regards, Matt On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > > This patch fixes neon saving error pages when encountered to target file. > > I'm not entirely sure if this is the *correct* way to fix it though, but > at least it does work... ;) > > > There's lots of work pending in rpmdav.c, and some of it is quite subtle > because HTTP+WEBDAV as a RPC mapped underneath system calls > is non-trivial. > > On a related note, is neon failing to download whenever being redirected > (ie. when downloading from sourceforge.net) a known issue? > > > Its likely lack of support for 30x redirects from sourceforge.net. > > Note that I deliberately have not implemented support for 30x redirects to > give distro maintainers/users plausible reasoning for _NOT_ using rpmio > transport. Its really not all that hard to fish out an alternative URL and > to > reopen a connection on a different path. > > What is hard is the endless justification of why RPM might make intelligent > use of network transport using any of the 4 or 5 transport stacks that > are now linked into a "maximally" configured RPM. > > And -- AFAIK -- network transport using RPM is not "officially" supported > by either Mandriva nor ROSA. > > Again show me a credible "official" item on a distro release ROADMAP and > you > will have my immediate attention. > > Till then (or hell freezing over, I've been developing RPMIO for years in > myt "spare" time) > its plain and simply easier to just give all the nay sayers a perfect > excusing for not > "supporting" network transport in RPM: > > There is _NO_ support for 30x redirects in the existing RPMIO > implementation. > > Simple isn't it: upstream gives distros/users a perfect excuse for not > using an implementation. > > 73 de Jeff > > -- > Regards, > Per Øyvind > <rpm-5.4.10-fix-neon-saving-error-pages-as-target-file.patch> > > >
