github as a source for an unofficial repo? https support in pacman

graysky · 2011-01-13 22:15:15

I suspect the answer is no but can pacman handle a server over https? I'd like to use my github repo as an unofficial pacman repo, but AFAIK, I can only do so via https, not http.

Last edited by graysky (2011-01-14 22:28:20)

jelly · 2011-01-14 12:45:40

how will you achieve this, since you have to use repo-add ? Did you actually tried doing this via https?

graysky · 2011-01-14 21:26:40

@jelly - you run repo-add on the local machine, then upload all the .gz and .xz files to the repo. The problem seems to be that pacman doesn't use the https protocol, only http and ftp. Also, githut only uses https

jelly · 2011-01-14 21:55:15

ask the pacman devs if they can somehow add https support maybe

graysky · 2011-01-14 22:28:05

@jelly - thanks for the advice, I opened a feature-request. Maybe Allan can do it in his spare time

Allan · 2011-01-15 00:34:31

graysky wrote:

Maybe Allan can do it in his spare time

no need... falconindy has already coded a switch from libfetch to libcurl. https support will be there once that is finished.

falconindy · 2011-01-15 03:43:11

Ah geez... no pressure... the patchset on the pacman-dev mailing list works, but it's not ideal (and it no longer applies cleanly to git master). I'm hoping I have some time this weekend to address some of the issues that dan brought up on his initial review.

http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-dev@ … 05922.html

jelly · 2011-01-15 13:36:18

Allan wrote:

graysky wrote:
Maybe Allan can do it in his spare time
no need... falconindy has already coded a switch from libfetch to libcurl. https support will be there once that is finished.

Oh man those pacman devs are so cool they just add features even if you don't want too

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github as a source for an unofficial repo? https support in pacman

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