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Date:      Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:53:01 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>, gerald@pfeifer.com, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: bsd.sites.mk: Do we prefer http or https (or both)
Message-ID:  <E40CCC7F-07C9-40AF-9CB3-7D0B730E2FD1@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170311202911.4dccde2f@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.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> <20170311202911.4dccde2f@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>

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> On 11 Mar, 2017, at 12:29, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> 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: =20
>>>> Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> writes: =20
>>>>> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:53:01 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer
>>>>> <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote: =20
>>>>>> As some of you may have seen, I have done a bit of work on
>>>>>> bsd.sites.mk recently.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> One question I ran into:  If a site offers both HTTPS and HTTP,=20=

>>>>>> which of the two do we prefer?  (Or do we want to list both?)   =20=

>>>>>=20
>>>>> https first for people that run 'make makesum'.   =20
>>>>=20
>>>> It was made MITM-friendly sometime ago.
>>>>=20
>>>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/324051 =20
>>>=20
>>> Ugh, can portmgr approve the attached
>>> =
patch?<fetchenv.patch>_______________________________________________ =20=

>>=20
>> If distfiles from sites with invalid certificates won't fetch for
>> end-users, they won't fetch during makesum either.
>=20
> - 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.

I don't disagree with any point. Do you want to submit a PR so that an =
exp-run of sorts can see how many distfiles we're talking about?

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org




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