7 May
2013
7 May
'13
9:49 p.m.
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 06:59:35PM -0700, Roland Haas wrote:
does anybody know if it is possible to use GetComponents to check out (really only download) a thorn from a "dump" transport channel such as http right now?
GetComponent only really handles single files using plain http(s)/ftp. However, it shouldn't be hard to add a 'tar -xJf' or similar for compressed files. So far just nobody really had the need. I don't think that recursive gets via wget are a good way to get an entire thorn. It takes much too long, it generates higher load on the server, and most likely also uses more bandwidth than a single, compressed tarball.
Frank