Hello,
Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> can anybody more skilled than me please implement some HTTP(s) updater,
> so we can "refresh" directly from downloads.kde.org. Please apologize,
> if there already is one, I did not spot one.
>
> Yesterday KDE released an security update, which was available at
> downloads.kde.org at 05:38 GMT. When I tried updating the packages
> ("guix refresh") at about 18:30 GMT, the packages have not been found.
>
> Reasons for this is: "guix refresh --type=kde" uses
> ftp://mirror.mit.edu, which obviously is lagging. This may cost us
> important time in case of an emergency update. Unfortunately KDE's main
> site (downloads.kd.org) is only accessible via https, not via FTP.
The updater currently browses FTP, and there’s no way to browse an HTTP
directory (because HTTP is not a file transfer protocol).
So we need a way to list the latest releases somehow. If they publish
JSON, XML, or some other structured info format, that’s fine too. But
HTTP alone is not good: we’d have to infer the information from HTML
pages, which sounds fragile.
Could you check what methods they offer to get updates?
Ludo’.
