On Thursday, March 3, 2022 7:07:34 AM CET Ralf Corsépius wrote:
Am 24.02.22 um 19:35 schrieb Daniel P. Berrangé:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 07:16:26PM +0100, Ralf Corsépius wrote:
> If someone is setting up a personal private mirror, I struggle
> to understand a reason why they would pick FTP over HTTP(S)
> today.
Because an ftp server is much lighter and much easier to maintain than a
fat httpd-server?
> Perhaps someone will have a FTP only mirror that's
> existed for years and simply haven't got around to enabling
> HTTP, but addressing that is not an unreasonable expectation.
Almost. E.g. I am using a LAN-wide (anonymous-only) ftp server, I set up
a long time ago and rarely touched since then.
Using httpd-server would simply be overkill for this use-case.
> IMHO explicitly disabling FTP in dnf would be fine, as any fallout
> could be easily dealt with by enabling HTTP. Just ensure we announce
> such intent ahead of time via a Fedora feature proposal.
I don't agree. Not using a protocol on public dnf-servers is on thing,
but removing the "ftp" protocol everywhere is just silly fanatism, IMHO.
Ralf
The FTP protocol is still included in libcurl-minimal, so the protocol is not
going to disappear with the proposed F37 change. On the other hand, it may
happen that FTP will be unavailable by default in a year or two.
Kamil