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Re: A niche for the Hurd - dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: A niche for the Hurd - dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 15:42:02 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14

Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 02 Nov 2008 10:50:09 +0100, a écrit :
> Am Sonntag 02 November 2008 01:23:15 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> > Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 02 Nov 2008 01:03:47 +0100, a écrit :
> > > Am Montag 20 Oktober 2008 15:00:22 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> > > > - Nice features: dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb
> > >
> > > Could you explain what this does?
> >
> > It installs (-i) the deb packages from the bar/ path of server foo, but
> > only if already installed (-O).  Quite useful to install somebody's own
> > build of the hurd packages from his ftp server for instance.
> 
> Does it depend on having an FTP multiplexer setup at "ftp:",

It does.

Samuel




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