Control: tag -1 + patch On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 23:20:23 +0200, Stephen Kitt <sk...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:06:01 +0200, Stephen Kitt <sk...@debian.org> wrote: > > People running how-can-i-help for the first time are greeted with the > > following: > > > > /usr/bin/how-can-i-help:135:in `open': No such file or directory @ > > rb_sysopen - /home/steve/.cache/how-can-i-help/how-can-i-help.json.gz > > (Errno::ENOENT) from /usr/bin/how-can-i-help:135:in `<main>' > > For anyone else running across this, the following allows how-can-i-help to > work: > > mkdir ~/.cache/how-can-i-help > cd $_ > wget http://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz
And the real fix is as follows (courtesy of Gilles on unix.stackexchange.com): --- /usr/bin/how-can-i-help 2015-06-01 23:38:29.495098189 +0200 +++ /tmp/how-can-i-help 2015-06-01 23:39:07.551976071 +0200 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ exit(0) end -HELPITEMS_URL = 'http://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz' +HELPITEMS_URL = 'https://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz' CACHEDIR = "#{HOME}/.cache/how-can-i-help" CONFIGDIR = "#{HOME}/.config/how-can-i-help" SEEN_LOCAL = "#{CACHEDIR}/seen.json" @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ proxy_user, proxy_pass = proxy_uri.userinfo.split(/:/) if proxy_uri.userinfo http_object = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port, proxy_uri.host, proxy_uri.port, proxy_user, proxy_pass) +http_object.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https' # proceeding get_response begin Regards, Stephen
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