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An updater tool for Kubo IPFS binary
https://dist.ipfs.tech/#ipfs-update
MIT License
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ipfs-update won't work in private network #100

Closed khachatur-s closed 4 years ago

khachatur-s commented 6 years ago

IPFS Version information: 0.4.17 ipfs-update: Version information: 1.5.3-dev Type: Feature Request Severity: Enhancement

ipfs-update won't work when enabling IPFS Private Networks feature. It's logical, 'cause ipfs-update uses local ipfs daemon for data transfer and this IPFS Private Networks feature assumes communicating only with private nodes, but on the other hand it would be very useful to be able to use ipfs-update assuming that the private nodes have access to the web. Maybe it worth to add another update method alongside ipfs?

hsanjuan commented 4 years ago

This tool uses the local ipfs daemon to fetch the files, but if that is not available, it fails back to the public gateways. I suggest to stop the local ipfs daemon before running ipfs-update.

Closing this for the moment, but if you want to take a stab at adding a command flag to download directly from http, go ahead :)