Re: Python Package Index (pypi) distfiles now forced TLS?

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:58:46 +0900, David Holland 
<dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:01:08PM -0400, rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
>  > What about for moving forward though? Are we going to mirror all their
>  > distfiles or make FETCH_CMD=[wget|curl] ?
>
> Moving forward, fetch.mk needs to automatically pick something that
> handles https urls when one is present. Explicitly setting the fetch
> command in affected packages is not scalable.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2010/10/30/msg006098.html

For curl and wget, we can detect supported protocols automatically
(with `curl --vesion' and `wget --version'), but it is impossible
for tnftp and fetch (do `ldd' and find libssl?).

> Also, -current has https support in ftp so nothing special is needed
> any more there... which among other things means that unless the
> handling is automated we'll never get it fully right.

Anyone working on update net/tnftp with https support one?

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