@r0lf Agreed that it is easy enough to workaround, so I wouldn't call it
an urgent requirement - however, having to stand up a web server to host
a file in the environment is an overhead which could be avoided if using
a file was an option. When using configuration management tooling like
ansible,
So, you are saying it would be convenient. Maybe that is the case. But
it's not what I was asking for. I was asking for arguments why this is
necessary and why the current solution is insufficient. Coding this up
is going to tie up developper resources, so there better be a use case
for this
Where is the advantage? It's easy enough to host a file these days and
without a net connection the whole update business isn't going to work.
Not sure if this would be a lot of work to implement. But before anybody
goes ahead and thinks about doing that let's make sure this is worth the
effort.
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