[pacman-dev] Support for SFTP?

[Mateusz Jedrasik]

Thursday 07 of June 2007 20:05:41 Dallas Clement napisał(a):
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 12:57 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 6/7/07, Dallas Clement <dallas.a.clement at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Does Pacman have the ability to retrieve packages via the SFTP
> > > protocol?
> >
> > I was planning on adding support in the future, but it does not at the
> > moment.
>
> Thanks for the reply.  It would sure be nice to have it.  I like the way
> Pacman has been implemented.  I would just like to use it in a network
> appliance type device that will only have secure protocols enabled.
>
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There's other ways to secure your network transfers, higher level than 
protocol...

I'd suggest a VPN (for a start) or somesuch if it's to be that secure.

Regards,

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