On 2017-05-21 23:45, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-04-27 13:20, Brian Inglis wrote: >> * units-2.14-1 >> >> The Units program converts quantities expressed in various scales to >> their equivalents in other scales. The units program can handle >> multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as >> Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge. Units comes with an annotated, >> extendable database defining over two thousand units. >> >> This is an update to the latest upstream release, which now supports >> longer input expressions (e.g. a sum of more than 100 units), control >> characters treated as white space to avoid producing errors about >> invalid UTF-8, and includes 2980 units, 109 prefixes, and 96 nonlinear >> units.
Timegenie.com cert has been renewed for another 3 months until August 19 and redeployed, so certs are valid and will no longer produce errors. > Currency exchange rates are updated on every run of setup by a permanent > postinstall script > /etc/postinstall/zp_units_cur.sh > running > /usr/bin/units_cur > to access > https://rss.timegenie.com > which uses HSTS to enforce https access, and whose security certificate > has expired, so runs will fail with message: > Error connecting to currency server. <urlopen error [SSL: > CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)> > > If this causes you problems, please temporarily rename the current > update script /usr/bin/units_cur and replace by the attached, or replace > the line between the first try: and except ...: by the following lines: > [the first line is a comment, the remainder are indented two spaces] > > # > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36600583/python-3-urllib-ignore-ssl-certificate-verification > import ssl > ctx = ssl.create_default_context() > ctx.check_hostname = False > ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE > currencies = > ET.parse(urllib.request.urlopen('https://rss.timegenie.com/forex.xml',context=ctx)).findall('data') > > to ignore the security certificate expiry until it is renewed (hopefully > by sometime Tuesday after the holiday): when the security certificate > has been renewed, I will follow up here to let everyone know. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
