Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

From: Goran Mekić <meka_at_tilda.center>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:52:19 +0200
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 04:46:19PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People
> > > should be using HTTPS only.
>
> > Isn't this a bit too much? I often find myself in need to download
> > something starting with "http://" or "ftp://" and use fetch for this.
>
> It's a bit too much. Deprecating it, 'add --really if you really
> want to use http/ftp' would be more useful for the common
> sys-admin 8-)

Doesn't pkg/freebsd-update use libfetch? If I'm right and they do, http
is widely used, then.

Received on Thu Sep 17 2020 - 12:52:28 UTC

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