I guess we can package it, but what is wrong with:

1. lftp over the sftp:// protocol.

2. The FISH protocol, supported by konqueror, and other file managers.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

CC: (none) => shlomif

I can connect with lftp in CLI but then I always get a 30 second countdown - Before it fails - that seems wrong with lftp.
But it looks interesting.

Actually I got it working now - and the big difference is that hsftp has normal Linux syntax so I can use ls instead of !ls

...And you can change directory in hsftp I have been unable to manage that in lftp.

(In reply to comment #4)
> ...And you can change directory in hsftp I have been unable to manage that in
> lftp.

From man lftp:

       lcd ldir

       Change current local directory ldir. The previous  local  directory  is
       stored as `-'. You can do `lcd -' to change the directory back.

       cd rdir

       Change current remote directory.   The  previous  remote  directory  is
       stored  as  `-'.  You  can do `cd -' to change the directory back.  The
       previous directory for each site is also stored on disk, so you can  do
       `open site; cd -' even after lftp restart.

Ok thanks! It can pretty much do the same as hsftp with it then, but the obvious advantage of hsftp is that you do not have to learn a different syntax.
So I can do a cd Documents instead of lcd lDocuments.
In fact the command that works is lcd Documents (not lDocuments).

lftp has some instances with prepending ! and some with l - I am sure it is all explained - but it sure does not beat the familiar syntax.

So hsftp is easier to use and easier to understand :) 
That might be a good reason for a user-friendly! distro IMHO. 

As a final example to get a file from the remote box I need to do a

<rfile> and store it to local file <lfile>.
(I never got it to work)

in hsftp you do a <get file> (no "l" or "r") and it will be automatically stored in your current directory on your box.

(you can specify and make it more complicated - but there is no need)

So far that is the answer to "What is wrong with lftp"

Hi thomas,

well, I tried building the old Mandriva hsftp package, and ran into a few problems:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPACKAGE=\"hsftp\" -DVERSION=\"1.15\" -I. -I.    -O2 -g -pipe -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fPIC  -o hsftp.o -c ./hsftp.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPACKAGE=\"hsftp\" -DVERSION=\"1.15\" -I. -I.    -O2 -g -pipe -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fPIC  -o piper.o -c ./piper.c
./hsftp.c: In function âmainâ:
./hsftp.c:1236:7: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
./piper.c: In function ârestore_ttyâ:
./piper.c:357:8: warning: ignoring return value of âchownâ, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
./hsftp.c:1426:11: warning: ignoring return value of âsystemâ, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [hsftp.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.oI6kpZ (%build)

I don't feel motivated enough to fix it, so if you want hsftp in Mageia, you'll need to provide me with an up-to-date package with all these patches. Or install hsftp from source or just use lftp. It seems that hsftp has not been maintained since at least 2006, and that the source distribution lacks a changes-log, an INSTALL file and other files that are common in other quality source packages. So I don't feel confident in packaging it.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

OK I undertstand.
Here is a package that should have been maintained in 2008
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2011/i586/media/contrib/release/hsftp-1.15-3mdv2009.0.i586.rpm

But it will not work out of the box either. 
We can live with lftp I guess.