[tinysofa-devel] classic future plans

[Gerald Dachs]

Jaakko Heinonen sagte:
> 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.

Thanks, but anyway, as I need swup only for my own local repositories
you can throw it out of the distro.

Gerald
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Gerald Dachs                     gda at tinysofa.org