[pacman-dev] [PATCH] dload.c : drop the specific handling of file: url.

[Xavier Chantry]

Before commit fc48dc31, file:/// urls forced the use of the internal
downloader (libdownload), because the default XferCommand, wget, does not
handle them.
We tried to move away from forcing usage of libdownload, so this commit
implemented the handling of file:/// urls manually. However, this
implementation is way too basic. It does not handle the progress bar, thus
nothing at all appears in pacman's output when a file: repo is synchronized,
or when a file is downloaded from a sync repo. Also, it is not able to
detect when the repo is already up-to-date. When libdownload was used, both
were handled.
So it seems better to just drop this implementation for now. All users who
use libdownload will get the much better file:// handling back. For the
users of XferCommand, it will be more problematic, but they have several
options:
1) switch to a downloader handling file:// (wget doesn't, but curl does for
example)
2) drop the file:// repo, and set up light http or ftp servers instead.
Consider that going that way would make this repo available for the whole
local network, which can be useful
3) switch back to libdownload, which works perfectly for many users

Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc at gmail.com>
---
 lib/libalpm/dload.c |   15 ---------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/dload.c b/lib/libalpm/dload.c
index b5f0b87..ef12646 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/dload.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/dload.c
@@ -340,21 +340,6 @@ cleanup:
 static int download(const char *url, const char *localpath,
 		time_t mtimeold, time_t *mtimenew) {
 	int ret;
-	const char *proto = "file://";
-	int len = strlen(proto);
-	if(strncmp(url, proto, len) == 0) {
-		/* we can simply grab an absolute path from the file:// url by starting
-		 * our path at the char following the proto (the root '/')
-		 */
-		const char *sourcefile = url + len;
-		const char *filename = get_filename(url);
-		char *destfile = get_destfile(localpath, filename);
-
-		ret = _alpm_copyfile(sourcefile, destfile);
-		FREE(destfile);
-		/* copyfile returns 1 on failure, we want to return -1 on failure */
-		return(ret ? -1 : 0);
-	}
 
 	/* We have a few things to take into account here.
 	 * 1. If we have both internal/external available, choose based on
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