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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-02-04 09:15:22 -0600
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-02-04 09:15:22 -0600
commit7664a58d4e95f0e1f1b433add61f3b658b926aaa (patch)
tree7dd1952b590cc43d82f2034a489b43a244dadb0d /lib/libalpm/dload.c
parente34fc4eddf73f2453b42235f5ae7d65f75db66fc (diff)
Add comment about download file resolution
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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diff --git a/lib/libalpm/dload.c b/lib/libalpm/dload.c
index 15d75556..7a98eb12 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/dload.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/dload.c
@@ -172,6 +172,14 @@ static int download_internal(const char *url, const char *localpath,
/* NOTE: libfetch does not reset the error code, be sure to do it before
* calls into the library */
+ /* TODO: if we call fetchStat() and get a redirect (disabling automagic
+ * redirect following), we should repeat the file locator stuff and get a new
+ * filename rather than only base if off the first URL, and then verify
+ * get_filename() didn't return ''. Of course, libfetch might not even allow
+ * us to even get that URL...FS#22645. This would allow us to download things
+ * without totally puking like
+ * http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/exim/download/ */
+
/* find out the remote size *and* mtime in one go. there is a lot of
* trouble in trying to do both size and "if-modified-since" logic in a
* non-stat request, so avoid it. */