<div dir="ltr">(actually, 2 isn't true. i forgot that it's .tar.gz.asc, not .asc.)<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, enh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enh@google.com" target="_blank">enh@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">i haven't been able to contact the FTP server this morning.<div><br></div><div>i added support for getting updates from the HTTP server (<a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/57332" target="_blank">https://android-review.googlesource.com/57332</a>) but FTP is still the preferred method because:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. you can get a directory listing via FTP but not HTTP, so if you miss a couple of changes, my script can't take you through the intermediates so the git history remains complete.</div><div>
<br></div><div>2. you can't get the .asc files via HTTP, so no verification.</div><div><br></div><div>if HTTP is the preferred download method going forward, could we get .asc files on there and have directory listings turned on for the releases directory?</div>
<div><br></div><div> --elliott (Android tzdata maintainer)</div></div>
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