On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:47:45PM +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Hi. > Looking at getbinpkg.py, I see that BINPKGs can be retrieved using > http/s s/ftp. I'm wondering about rsync, as it is mostly supported > across portage (and also in layman). Is there some design reasoning > behind this lack of support, or is it that no-one has yet gotten around > to implement it? > > I'm raising the question because I'm implementing a private repository > and would prefer not to service it via http if I don't have to. Right > now, the only feature which is blocking me is this lack of support for > binary packages.
Look in the code to be sure, but I'd expect it just hasn't been implemented. If I were in your shoes, I'd generalize the SYNC proto support into something usable for binpkgs also- I did this in pkgcore, works fairly well (and could be extended to fetching in general, which again works well enough). Personally, I wouldn't dick around with rsync for individual file transfers- http/ftp seems better suited, but I may be missing something about your setup that warrants it. Cheers- ~harring
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