From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Using HTTPS mirrors only in thirdpartymirrors (when possible)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:48:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3220ce25cc50d9735265288fd03c464eee7e4889.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe3f42f4-eb02-75b7-3171-c0f3c2d07456@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 2019-09-29 at 16:54 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while I invested some time in the past updating thirdpartymirrors to add
> HTTPS where possible too, I see no point in dropping non-HTTPS mirrors:
>
> Just make sure that HTTPS mirrors are listed first.
This sounds like you're wrongly assuming that the package managers are
going to consult mirrors in order. This isn't true.
> From security point of view, we don't get anything from HTTPS because we
> maintain and validate checksums for distfiles and thirdpartymirrors file
> is only used for distfiles.
>
I'm really glad you've ignored the entire point I made in my original
post.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-29 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-29 9:56 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Using HTTPS mirrors only in thirdpartymirrors (when possible) Michał Górny
2019-09-29 11:35 ` Piotr Karbowski
2019-09-29 14:54 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-09-29 15:48 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2019-09-30 5:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-30 5:35 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-30 20:30 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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