Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:31:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg Message-ID: <e10f85c4-ed28-4475-bcbf-d4e572a6b954@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <f1aca07d3cedd30b9a1df6624e950ffb@bsdforge.com> References: <20220120142519.a5juoe75oppmnyby@aniel.nours.eu> <f1aca07d3cedd30b9a1df6624e950ffb@bsdforge.com>
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22 janv. 2022 08:25:47 Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com>: > On 2022-01-20 06:25, 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) > Must be a stupid question. But I'll ask anyway; Why the effort to start removing transports? Because maintaining ftp has a cost, number of line of code, user support etc. >> 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. > > Local repos. > ftp(1) is cheap. Other transports are (usually) more expensive. > ssh which is supported is as cheap if not cheaper. Bapt
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