On 28/08/12 10:17, Luke T.Shumaker wrote: > Another effect of the Allan's current implementation is that adding > another scheme requires modification to makepkg, event if it is just > to pass it to DLAGENTS. I'd argue that even if we have the special > cases, the correct behavior would be to have download_file (DLAGENTS) > as a fallback, instead of only tripping on 'ftp|http|https|rsync|scp'.
Fix on its way. > Further, a use case I see is a user putting some funky stuff in > DLAGENTS to either use an offline cache, or do some network stuff to > deal with a contrived network setup. This is the only thing I think needs dealt with... maybe... Can you give a concrete example? Thanks, Allan