Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:25:15 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg Message-ID: <20220120152515.whk2hf66jina5kwf@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <e2c065d6-0776-4f4d-1337-2a294816ba07@grosbein.net> References: <20220120142519.a5juoe75oppmnyby@aniel.nours.eu> <8962672b-1d0e-c05a-4897-4b01c2d04542@pobox.com> <20220120144753.cnwkih4a5mjuzvcv@aniel.nours.eu> <e2c065d6-0776-4f4d-1337-2a294816ba07@grosbein.net>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:22:27PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 20.01.2022 21:47, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 09:43:38AM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: > >> On 1/20/22 9:25 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>> Hello everyone, > >>> > >>> We plan to remove the support for fetching packages over ftp for the next > >>> releases of pkg (probably 1.18) if you have a strong reason to use ftp which > >>> cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols like ssh or http, > >>> please do share. > >>> > >> > >> Will sftp continue to be supported? > > > > sftp has never been supported and if you meant ftps, it will be removed along > > with ftp, we have our own protocol on top of ssh. > > It should be possible to keep one's own pack of files and share them for local set of machines > for pkg to access and do that with base system only. With FTP, it is possible now. > Will it be still possible without FTP? I consider this reason is strong enough. > > you can use ssh for that. Bapt
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