Matt Robinson <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Sandor Szuecs
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't this be using Puppet's CA cert to try to
>>> validate connections to wherever you're getting the dmg?
>>
>> I think the use case of the pkgdmg provider is to use a local site, so
>> it is ok to use puppet's CA, or am I missing something?
>
> I may also be missing something, but I thought that the provider could use
> any site that serves up dmg's over http, so in that case using puppet's CA
> doesn't make sense.
Yes, it does, by definition. "Anything that Open::URI accepts" is the
promised implementation, and it would certainly break some of our use of the
provider to implement that.
> Perhaps someone more familiar with how this provider is used could weigh in
> (Nigel?).
To my eye adding the ability to use a 'puppet' URL there, and fetch that using
the authenticated, internal file transfer mechanism (on demand) would make
sense...
Daniel
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