[Open-collaboration-services] OCS 1.6 draft - download, repositories, package names

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 20.07.2010, at 20:28, Mateu Batle wrote:

> Hi all,
> 

Hi Mat,


> there is one problem with the current draft, there is no way from the
> client to know the package name and repository until we really issue the
> download to the OCS server (and thus incrementing the download count).
> We need to know in advance, since the client checks if the application
> is already installed or not, or if there is an update available (that is
> done through the repository currently).
> 
> Can we change it so we can get this information efficiently somehow
> without altering the download count ? Maybe in content list request.


Hmmm. The idea is to provide the repository and the package name only with the download method.
This ensures that the client really calls this method. This is important to handle the download counter, store which users has what app and handles payment.

In KDE (GHNS) we use the version field to check if a new version of a content is available.
We store the version number of the current installed content and compare it with the version on the server.

Isn´t this also possible for your usecase?



> 
> best regards
>  Mat
> 

Cheers
Frank


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