Package: simple-cdd X-Debbugs-Cc: enr...@enricozini.org, bou...@debian.org On 2017-04-25, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03:19:01PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > >> After many years of serving the needs of our users, and some more of >> declining usage in favor of better options, all public-facing debian.org >> FTP services will be shut down on November 1, 2017. These are: >> >> * ftp://ftp.debian.org >> * ftp://security.debian.org
> simple-cdd currently depends on ftp to be able to get files in > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/doc/ that are needed by debian-cd. It > needs ftp because with http there is no reliable way to enumerate the > list of files in doc/ to be downloaded. That is the only reason there's > still a need of the mirror_wget tool and all the download can't just be > done via python's http client libraries. Thanks for pointing this out! > Is there a different way to get a copy of the files in doc/ ? At a quick glance, there is: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/extrafiles Which has the added benefit of being signed, lists the files we want, with checksums. The code used to download debian-installer images based on the signed Release files in the distribution is similar to what's needed to parse extrafiles... e.g. download extrafiles, verify the signature, look for the files we want, download the individual files... so that code could be re-used, refactored, rewritten, etc. to support this. This sounds better from a number of angles! Thanks for decomissioning ftp! It shouldn't be too difficult with the version in stretch; the version in jessie will have a harder time. live well, vagrant
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