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On Monday 04 October 2004 6:00 pm, Nicholas Jones wrote: |
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> > It seems like you're assuming that only one file can be fetched per |
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> > connection. I haven't researched the topic much, but I'm pretty sure |
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> > HTTP, not to mention FTP, supports multiple requests with one connection. |
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> How do you handle changing depends? You cannot safely assume that |
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> a single download of all current relevant directories will be |
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> complete. Thus... You have to connect and download multiple times. |
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Not neccesarilly... Open connection; fetch pkgiwant; check deps; fetch |
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depineed; no more deps: Close connection |
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Determining dependencies should be fast enough to keep the connection open |
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for. |
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> HTTP/FTP would add in complexity to portage's update procedure. |
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> Now we'd have to ensure that our information is correct. wget |
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> could do this with timestamps, but then you lose the forcable |
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> checking of the contents by checksum. |
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How so? Fetch checksums too. |
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And the purpose of such an ability would be to make sync-updates unneccesary. |
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Luke-Jr |
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