On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > 2013/8/29 Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> > > On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Dawkins wrote: > >> Idk if this an "official" item on the ROADMAP, but having support for 30+ >> diff redirects in RPMIO "would" be a nice feature, useful to "us" >> hobbyists". Especial redirects from sourceforge or googlecode. >> > > Network support is not an "official" ROADMAP item: in fact quite the opposite, > as "Have it your own way!" desired distributing RPM with network support > (not just redirects) disabled. > > Then there is the perceived issue of "external" vs "internal" network > transport that has been discussed for years. > And "external" downloader support, with RPM denied all network access on > build machines and in chroot's, is what I am continually told is what rpm > SHOULD do. > > Both ROSA/Mandriva have chosen _NOT_ to "support" network transport in RPM. > ? > I've enabled it since long ago: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=64914 >
enabled != supported I asked repeatedly (when there was someone at Mandriva to ask, Dodonov) and was told "unsupported". Nothing has changed since. I won't attempt to support what vendor's claim "unsupported". 73 de Jeff
