Tim Foster wrote:
On 08/17/12 08:37 AM, Philip Brown wrote:
I personally have a program that I'd like to make available via IPS,
but I'm
not going to spend another $40 a month to upgrade my domain hosting to
something that allows custom demons to be run, just for the privilege of
distributing something that doesnt make me any money.
[snip]
> Have I missed something?
Yes, you can deliver a p5p archive over http, no extra hosting
necessary. This doesn't give all of the benefits that IPS can offer (in
terms of pkg clients being able to update as easily) but it's a good start.
Aha.. well, that certainly is good news.
but what of simple updates?
I definitely am interested in the whole concept of
- configure URL http:/xxxx as source of package(s)
- every once in a while, run pkg update
if this approach does not currently offer this availability, then sadly, it
does not seem better than "pkgadd -d http:/xxxxx"
Perhaps I can make a suggestion for the p5p format.
If you make it so that the version somehow easily appear from the file, with
an HTTP HEAD operation or whatever, and then allow the client side to store
per-package url information easily, it could be useful for vendors who have
only 1 or 2 software packages, to more easily offer to their customers an
auto-update capability for IPS packages.
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