Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:29:11 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>, gerald@pfeifer.com, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bsd.sites.mk: Do we prefer http or https (or both) Message-ID: <20170311202911.4dccde2f@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <727BA28F-ECA5-4094-B1D1-E8F122770D56@adamw.org> References: <20170311113355.0f3f8b77@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20170311121851.715B55859@freefall.freebsd.org> <20170311181339.58bcf2a8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <727BA28F-ECA5-4094-B1D1-E8F122770D56@adamw.org>
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:18:18 -0700 Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote: > On 11 Mar, 2017, at 10:13, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:18:51 +0000 (UTC) jbeich@freebsd.org (Jan >> Beich) wrote: >>> Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>>> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:53:01 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer >>>> <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote: >>>>> As some of you may have seen, I have done a bit of work on >>>>> bsd.sites.mk recently. >>>>> >>>>> One question I ran into: If a site offers both HTTPS and HTTP, >>>>> which of the two do we prefer? (Or do we want to list both?) >>>> >>>> https first for people that run 'make makesum'. >>> >>> It was made MITM-friendly sometime ago. >>> >>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/324051 >> >> Ugh, can portmgr approve the attached >> patch?<fetchenv.patch>_______________________________________________ > > If distfiles from sites with invalid certificates won't fetch for > end-users, they won't fetch during makesum either. - Given that web browsers have become much less forgiving about such certificates this is probably much less of a problem nowadays. - Possibly, many of these errors are because users forgot to install ca_root_nss. We can hold port maintainers to a higher standard and expect them to have this installed. - Such sites should perhaps be removed from MASTER_SITES. If that's not possible FETCH_ENV can be set in the port Makefile.
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