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

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > - The major impediment to adding protocol support to rpm is one of
> >   taste and design:
> > 
> >     Should rpm have support for any (including FTP/HTTP) protocols at all?
> > 
> 
> 
> Someone else might have an example why this might be useful, but my
> first instinct is to say no; let other utilities handle the "fetching"
> of packages over the network.  There doesn't seem to be any real gain
> from adding the protocols into rpm; just use a second utility (rsync,
> sup, scp, ftp, etc) to get the packages.
> 
Ok... color me ignorant here... how does the "network install" work currently?
Does it invoke FTP separately? If so, that'll work for SCP as well, as far as
I'm concerned. ;-) I'm just an "end user" (an EXPERIENCED end user, mind, but
still just an "end user" <G>)
 	John