Re: libcurl-minimal
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:39:38AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2022-02-10 at 18:58 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:33:59AM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > For example dracut, dnf, and rpm seem to use FTP:
> >
> >
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/45ur...
> Here dracut allows ftp://, by calling curl. If curl does not support
> the protocol, this will fail… I think this is what we want.
>
> (BTW, I think the dracut repo on git.kernel.org seems stale…
> https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut has commits from this week, but
> kernel.org ends at 2021-05-27.)
>
> >
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/blob/f85cf313/dnf/repo.py#...
> I think the story would be the same here: if an url with ftp:// was actually
> configured somewhere, the download would fail. But I don't think we have many
> such urls...
We aren't the only ones who set up repositories. Organizations which
run Fedora and RHEL often have internal repositories, which may use
FTP.
To clarify: ftp still works, even with the changes in flight. The discussion
about dropping ftp was mostly theoretical. AFAIK, curl maintainers don't
plan to do this atm.
Zbyszek