Take that back, you could resume where you left off. Just not as smartly as rsync.
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:31 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: > 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). > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
