GNU bug report logs - #28159
Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>

Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28159: Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:20:02 +0200

Am 22.08.2017 um 10:57 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> So I would suggest picking one updater, say kde, and implementing it
> using whatever metadata can be retrieved from kde.org.

I'm not sure if I understood what you mean with "whatever metadata can
be retrieved from kde.org".

By change, download.kde.org indeed provides a "ls-lR" and "ls-lR.bz"
file at the top-level. I was not aware of this up to just now. Using
this might be an option (It is lagging a bit, though I think this is
acceptable. From what I've ssen I guess it is generated each hour if
some file changed.)

So for kde we might find a simpler solution. But in the long-run IMHO we
need a simple html parser.

I'm not skilled enough in scheme/guile to write such a parser, sorry.

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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