Re: some proposed changes/requirements for apt
On Thu, 16 May 2002, jason andrade wrote:
> Is there any chance of getting apt to offer this functionality ?
No. We have found that some web servers will use redirects to correct
spelling mistakes, a properly functioning archive server should never
issue them.
> The second query we have is getting apt to have some authentication
> mechanism. There seems to be no way to get apt to authenticate itself
It supports authentication by putting the information in the http URL as
per the proper RFCs. You can include that in the sources.list and it
will be used automatically.
Jason
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