Re: Idea for createrepo

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:37 +1100, John Newbigin wrote:
> There is a problem I have been facing for a while now with createrepo. I 
> don't think it would be too hard to solve but I am no python programmer.
> 
> I would like to be able to generate repodata for a web directory.  This 
> will be a local web server with some read-only packages (which are not 
> available via the filesystem).  I would like createrepo to get the list 
> of files via http and download them via http (206 Partial Content is 
> available). The resulting metadata will be stored on the local filesystem.
> 
> I am sure this is possible but I don't know if http access is built in 
> (like in php for example) or if it would be a lot of work.
> 

What's the problem you're trying to solve here?

-sv