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Implement fetch command

Open ferki opened this issue 8 years ago • 0 comments

It would be nice to provide a way to download files on the remote machine (in contrast to the currently implemented download command, that is downloading a file from the remote machine to the local machine).

I would call this command fetch for now.

Just dumping all the ideas here:

  • check if File::Fetch is available in the remote machine, and if yes, use that
  • otherwise check for curl and wget
  • ideally only download the file if it's not already downloaded
  • ideally it can resume an aborted download
  • if there is md5/sha checksum file available at the source location, try to download them and check the downloaded content against them
  • if keys are provided and gpg is available on the remote machine, try to also look for signature files, and verify them as well
  • return the full absolute path of the downloaded file upon success
  • throws exceptions otherwise

The main points are:

  • easy downloads on the remote machine
  • verify downloaded content
  • do it smartly (don't download twice, resume aborted download)

I would probably hack on this soon-ish, but feel free to beat me to it if you already have something like this implemented locally.

ferki avatar Apr 12 '17 15:04 ferki