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           Summary: Add ability to find binary cache tarballs via URI
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Untargetted future release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Feature Request
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org


Apologies this is somewhat stream of consciousness, hopefully it makes 
sense...

Currently it is possible to find a source tarball on a remote host via setting
LEAPFORWARD_URL, but you can't do the same thing to find a binary cache 
tarball
to resurrect.  You have to move them manually or NFS-share them around.  It
would be nice if they had a leapforward feature as well.

This should be trivial to add, and I plan to work on it myself, but I'm not 
sure
where you'll want it to go.  The easiest would be to put something in
libresurrect that checks if a certain variable is set and if so try to pull 
the
cache from there before can_resurrect() runs.  But that means resurrect 
talking
to remote hosts, which right now only summon does, so would you rather this be
added to summon, along with a command-line option to specify you want to pull
the binary instead of the source?  That seems more generic but it also means
extending summon beyond getting sources.

Let me know what you think.  Also what to call the variable.  I guess
LEAPFORWARD is a pun against FALLBACK, but I'm not sure the same applies 
here. 
I guess we could do something like use LEAPFORWARD_URL if it is set, then add
separate SOURCE_LEAPFORWARD_URL and BINARY_LEAPFORWARD_URL vars that could be
checked first.  Or we could use something completely different.

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