Edgy Third Party Package Management

[Adam Conrad]

Brent Larsen wrote:
> 
> A lot of ISVs would jump on an option to use apt-get to pull packages 
> from their ftp repo that requires apt to be smart enough to login with a 
> username and password, so that they could keep track of which customers 
> are updated and make sure that their stuff isn't available to anyone and 
> everyone.

You realise that apt can do http auth (and probably ftp auth, though
I've never tried it, since ftp is a horrible delivery mechanism for apt
sources in general) just by using the standard URL syntax
http://user:pass@hostname.com/ in sources.list, right?

... Adam