Re: [Synaptic-devel] Using synaptic over the net?

[radoeka]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:35:02AM +0200, Ivo Marino wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 08:04, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > I do this by establishing a connection to the remote X-server via ssh  
> > and redirecting the display of remote synaptic to my desktop. For  
> > brevity, I use this alias:
> > 
> > alias ssynaptic='ssh -X address@hidden gksu synaptic'
> > 
> > May be what you need. Alas, I use that in a LAN, so for real-life  
> > application it might well be too slow. :-)
> > 
> This could be an interesting solution to evaluate, yes.
> The only problem is that I don't run X on my server systems.
> 
> I was thinking more about something like reading the remote sources.list
> file, packages list, working on this and performing then apt-get via ssh
> on the remote machine -- Just an idea.

Just for the record, something like this is used by red-carpet
(may I talk about that on this list ? ;)
RC starts a deamon that is contacted by the client (either command line
or gui) on the local or remote system.
It would be interesting to have this for apt as well!

A good explanantin about RC can be found on:
http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux-e/2004-Aug/4063.html

--
Richard