[repoman] transport mechanism

[Paul Mattal]

Jason Chu wrote:
> But ssh can be run on multiple ports... even with a custom client/server
> you'd probably still run it on multiple ports for multiple instances.

Yes, but then do you set up a separate user system? I don't want 
everyone authenticating off one password file.

> Another common option is gpg signed emails.  To upload a package, just
> attach it, to execute a command (move package, delete package, create repo,
> etc) it's just a text command.  This solution also doesn't require a custom
> client/server, only custom scripts.

Emails are often not a possible transport and usually not an 
efficient transport for 100+MB packages, though the GPG signing idea 
could maybe be somehow differently applied.

- P