On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> So I patched pacman to remove an eventual trailing slash, and the >> patch will follow quickly. >> But I wonder if libdownload should not be patched as well. "Command >> ok" seems rather misleading. Returning the following error would be >> much better if it is possible : >> [DLERR_URL] Invalid URL >> > > I tried to compare a bit libdownload with current libfetch code, by curiosity. > I am a bit confused though now, it looks like the code already handles > multiple slashes. But well, I will need to investigate it more. > > Anyway, while looking at this, I found one difference in libfetch, > which was introduced by this patch : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2007-April/217521.html > > This looks rather interesting, I always noticed the high latency of > ftp access on -Sy operations, and that is why I always use http now. > But this patch might solve it.
At some point in the near future, I'm going to remove libdownload and maintain it as a patchset against libfetch. I am unclear as to where to pull libfetch from, because dragonflybsd seems to be more active, but has diverged a tad from freebsd, and openbsd is slightly different still. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
