On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: > -- begin offtopic -- > I tried "$ /usr/lib/apt/methods/http www.yahoo.com" but that didn't > seem to start fetching the file. As noted already, it's probably part > of the apt family and has it's own invocation method. apt developers > for some reason didn't want to use curl or wget. When I tested apt > earlier in the thread, I greped for were wget and curl (in ps) before > simply reading "ps ax". One reason for this could be that their http > gives them feedback which allows apt to show progress. > -- end offtopic --
Reason for the executable (note: not even a Perl script) is probably that apt-get (dpkg?) can run on a bare system before anything else is installed. It has to be able to download curl/wget before using it, and how do you download curl/wget? You use your built-in method, aka http. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
