[tinysofa-devel] classic future plans

[Jaakko Heinonen]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:12:40 +0100, Gerald Dachs wrote:
> I have made a client program that authenticates to a server using http and
> gets from this server a swup.conf file and a list of additional rpms to
> install. The client program starts swup with this swup.conf file and makes
> an upgrade and starts then swup again and installs the additional rpms.
> 
> Do you think it is easy to do it with apt, or are there some pitfalls?

I don't see any problem there. Apt http method supports basic http
authentication. (Not sure if you even need it.) You can use
-o Item:Dir::Etc::SourceList=x to provide custom sources list for
apt-get and you should use -y option to avoid interactive behaviour.

-- 
Jaakko