"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 12:34 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> package: ftp.debian.org >> >> Currently I cannot upload big packages from my internet connection (its >> reasonably good broadband in my area/India) because dput times out (its >> a mess to clean that). I have to scp every time to a server and dput >> from there because scp is more resilient to connection breaks. >> >> If dput allowed using sftp, I could avoid this extra step. Please >> consider adding sftp option. >> > > dput isn't maintained by ftp-master (and if it were it wouldn't be under > the ftp.d.o meta-package); reassigning. > > (I imagine you simply want to use the "scp" method in dput.cf, but I'll > leave that to the maintainers in case I'm missing something.)
dput seems to already support rsync which is probably a good choice when one has connection problems as it should support continuing the upload. I haven't used the `rsync` method so far though and there doesn't seem to be a ready-to-use entry in the default dput.cf. Ansgar
