Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg

[Chris]

On 2022-01-22 00:09, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

22 janv. 2022 08:47:57 Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com>:

On 2022-01-21 23:31, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

22 janv. 2022 08:25:47 Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com>:
On 2022-01-20 06:25, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

Hello everyone,

releases of pkg (probably 1.18)

We plan to remove the support for fetching packages over ftp for the next

Must be a stupid question. But I'll ask anyway; Why the effort to start removing transports?

Because maintaining ftp has a cost, number of line of code, user support etc.

if you have a strong reason to use ftp which

cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols like ssh or http,

please do share.

Local repos.
ftp(1) is cheap. Other transports are (usually) more expensive.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

ssh which is supported is as cheap if not cheaper.

Technically that's incorrect. But as I see you've also rejected 2 other requests. It's clear that this topic is not actually up for debate. So I'll say no more on the subject.

Bapt

-- Chris

configure, provide a path and here we are.


won t care about keeping it.


transport cannot provide as well.

It is up for debate, I have been told we need something in base to which I replied ssh is in base, so fill that requirement, you have said it is cheap no explaining what you call cheap, I say ssh is cheap as well as in not more complicated to You asked the reason for the removal I explained them, if ftp was free of cost I So up to now noone gave an detailed argument in favour of ftp, which ssh or other

Fair enough. Sorry if I misunderstood.

not in that list is dropped.

That's my take on it.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

I find it's less "housekeeping" to use ftp(1) setup through inetd(8) for pkg repos, than via ssh. I have no keys to care for. I am able to setup enormous intranets w/o any key exchange. ftp/inetd is in base. It seems "cheaper" both in resources as well as setup / usage. This works equally well for internets with the addition of an allow list (IP addresses). Where anything

Bapt

-- Chris

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