From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: 28159@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28159: Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:57:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poboasjz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c2838f3-24d6-5010-faf6-49e70f85e963@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:06:02 +0200")
Hi Hartmut,
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> our updater currently only supports FTP servers,
More precisely, several updaters rely on FTP (gnu, kernel.org, kde,
etc. see (guix gnu-maintenance)), but others rely on structured data
retrieved over HTTP(S) (pypi, cran, elpa, etc.)
> but more and more projects shutdown the FTP service and provide
> HTTP(S) servers only (e.g the Linux kernel). For other projects, the
> main distribution point has changed to HTTP and the mirrors still
> providing FTP at lagging (e.g. KDE, see [1]).
The FTP updater had the advantage of being simple and fairly generic,
but here we’ll probably have to go for project specific methods.
So I would suggest picking one updater, say kde, and implementing it
using whatever metadata can be retrieved from kde.org.
This should be simpler than trying to figure out a generic method that
will work for every software project.
HTH!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2017-08-20 12:06 ` bug#28159: Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers Hartmut Goebel
2017-08-22 8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-23 10:20 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-08-23 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-26 9:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-26 10:33 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-03 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-08 8:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-14 16:50 ` bug#28159: [gnu.org #1238656] " =?UTF-8?B?UnViw6luIFJvZHLDrWd1ZXogUMOpcmV6?= via RT
2017-09-15 7:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-14 16:50 ` Rubén Rodríguez Pérez via RT
2017-09-25 22:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-10 22:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-10 17:25 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-04-29 8:21 ` bug#28159: Closing bug #28159? " Brice Waegeneire
2020-04-30 21:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
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