I have a first pass at doing this that I can share best as a changeset fileout, I think.  It touches quite a few packages and before going any further it needs some checking by someone with a decent knowledge of the remote directory/server stuff. It hasn't broken the update loading, so at least some of it is correct ;-)

Let me know if you could be that reviewer.

tim
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