On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:56 PM Demi Marie Obenour
<demiobenour(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/10/22 18:49, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> On 2/10/22 13:39, 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.
>
> Could we add a warning that FTP is deprecated?
To be clear: this is for dracut and DNF, not in general. And it might
be a bad idea even in those cases.
That would only be something we could do if it was true. And it's not.
So we wouldn't reasonably do that.
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