On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Dawkins wrote: > Idk if this an "official" item on the ROADMAP, but having support for 30+ > diff redirects in RPMIO "would" be a nice feature, useful to "us" hobbyists". > Especial redirects from sourceforge or googlecode. >
Network support is not an "official" ROADMAP item: in fact quite the opposite, as "Have it your own way!" desired distributing RPM with network support (not just redirects) disabled. Then there is the perceived issue of "external" vs "internal" network transport that has been discussed for years. And "external" downloader support, with RPM denied all network access on build machines and in chroot's, is what I am continually told is what rpm SHOULD do. Both ROSA/Mandriva have chosen _NOT_ to "support" network transport in RPM. RPM cannot support for hobbyist usage, what linux vendors choose not to support. All of the above needs to be rationalized before it makes any sense to discuss 30x redirects. 73 de Jeff > Regards, > Matt > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > >> This patch fixes neon saving error pages when encountered to target file. >> >> I'm not entirely sure if this is the *correct* way to fix it though, but at >> least it does work... ;) >> > > There's lots of work pending in rpmdav.c, and some of it is quite subtle > because HTTP+WEBDAV as a RPC mapped underneath system calls > is non-trivial. > >> On a related note, is neon failing to download whenever being redirected >> (ie. when downloading from sourceforge.net) a known issue? >> > > Its likely lack of support for 30x redirects from sourceforge.net. > > Note that I deliberately have not implemented support for 30x redirects to > give distro maintainers/users plausible reasoning for _NOT_ using rpmio > transport. Its really not all that hard to fish out an alternative URL and to > reopen a connection on a different path. > > What is hard is the endless justification of why RPM might make intelligent > use of network transport using any of the 4 or 5 transport stacks that > are now linked into a "maximally" configured RPM. > > And -- AFAIK -- network transport using RPM is not "officially" supported > by either Mandriva nor ROSA. > > Again show me a credible "official" item on a distro release ROADMAP and you > will have my immediate attention. > > Till then (or hell freezing over, I've been developing RPMIO for years in myt > "spare" time) > its plain and simply easier to just give all the nay sayers a perfect > excusing for not > "supporting" network transport in RPM: > > There is _NO_ support for 30x redirects in the existing RPMIO > implementation. > > Simple isn't it: upstream gives distros/users a perfect excuse for not using > an implementation. > > 73 de Jeff >> -- >> Regards, >> Per Øyvind >> <rpm-5.4.10-fix-neon-saving-error-pages-as-target-file.patch> > >
