On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:41 PM, Viv Kendon wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Martin Costabel wrote:
In the man pages for sources.list, they talk about "the rsh/ssh method" which seems to imply that something like
deb ssh://ssh-server.leeds.ac.uk:/fink stable main crypto
should be possible. I think this is a long-standing lie in these man pages, and it never worked. It actually says there also:
"The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, and ftp."
This is more accurate. So if you don't have access to your server via http or ftp at all, you are out of luck.
Thank you, Martin, this is exactly what I was asking. It seemed from the various man pages that it should be possible to configure sources.list so that a command something like
rsync -av --rsh=ssh host::fink/path local/path
would be issued by fink (the :: meaning that rsync would start in server mode on host). But your Web tunneling method should work for me and is only a little bit more hassle to set up (I tunnel VNC successfully through ssh).
That's not quite correct. The man page says nothing about using rsync for apt. Also, rsync is horrible for binary files. It was designed more for text files. The ssh method is basically a scp to get the packages. I've never tried it, but if you set up your ssh keys correctly and watch the sshd logs it's possible to test it and get a working config line. Fink uses rsync or cvs to update the package descriptions, and we don't use ssh unless you are a fink devel with a sf account.
-chris zubrzycki
tiny brain is looking for a new home....
Is this a 'that is not quite correct but it should work anyway' or is this a 'you have to tweak it like this' or maybe the old 'lemme know if it works' sort of an answer?
Thanks, Robert :-)
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