FS#7481 - make rsync a supported protocol

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 20:36 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 14:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.0.5
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Currently only http and ftp are supported.
My ISP over-caches small files so current.db.tar.gz gets cached and I end up downloading a old version of the file when I do pacman -Syu
Also ftp doesn't work most of the days.
Rsync however from mirrors such as darkstar.ist.utl.pt seems to work blazing fast.

If pacman supported rsync as a protocol similar to http and ftp for checking and downloading updates, this would save me from having to mirror the whole rsync repository.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 14:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Outside the current scope of pacman/libdownload. An XferCommand will work for now.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 21:48 GMT
This is best done with an XferCommand script on the outside, although it could eventually make its way into libdownload.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 05:29 GMT
Close for lack of response? Or are you still thinking about this in the future Aaron?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 07:25 GMT
Maybe not rsync, but ssh:// would be neat. Still, this seems like exactly what XferCommand is intended for

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