On 28 Jan 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > On 28 Jan 1999 15:50:27 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Jason Gunthorpe writes: > >> And for the tiny fraction of the population that is behind an FTP > >> proxy without any http proxy support they can fetch it from the > >> archive by hand there is no need for it to be on the boot > >> disks. (It is hard to find a PCee that cannot run netscape) ... > >> Again, as with dpkg-ftp the tiny fraction of the population that is > >> behind such a firewall can get either a newer apt or a dpkg-http by > >> hand they should not be on the boot disks. > > > Do we really want to be telling people that they can't install > > Debian unless they already have Windows? > > No. Tiny population or not, I think the lack of 'Authorization' > support in the shipping apt is enough reason to keep 'http' on the > boot-disks. We'll just document that it should be used unless you > really need 'Authorization'.
APT supports Proxy-Authorization which is the defined standard form of authentication for proxy servers, there is a small number of very old proxy servers that use this other scheme - I'd expect that by now nobody is using such an antiquated version of their software. All 'new' (like 2 years or so) http proxys use Proxy-Authorization. It is not like they cannot fetch the method they need by hand and install it. If you must include dpkg-http and dpkg-ftp then clarify their descriptions that they are legacy methods for supporting special kinds of old proxy servers and we can remove them in slink with APTv3 - hopefully we can remove the CDROM methods too. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
