Re: rpm & ssh - Will the 2 be incorporated w/ each other soon?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero redhat de>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:45:57PM -0800, Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote:
> > A general question;
> >
> > Currently rpm can use HTTP or FTP.  In the future will rpm be able to
> > use SSH for package installs?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "use SSH for package installs".
>
> I know how to add support to rpm to do remote installs using, for example,
> either rcp or rdist protocols,

I think he's talking about an internal implementation of

scp user@some.host.com:/foo/bar-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm && \
rpm -i bar-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm && rm bar-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm

LLaP
bero