On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:39:38AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-02-10 at 18:58 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:33:59AM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > > For example dracut, dnf, and rpm seem to use FTP:
> > > 
> > >     
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/45url-lib/url-lib.sh?h=055#n55
> > Here dracut allows ftp://, by calling curl. If curl does not support
> > the protocol, this will fail… I think this is what we want.
> > 
> > (BTW, I think the dracut repo on git.kernel.org seems stale…
> > https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut has commits from this week, but
> > kernel.org ends at 2021-05-27.)
> > 
> > >     
> > > https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/blob/f85cf313/dnf/repo.py#L636
> > I think the story would be the same here: if an url with ftp:// was actually
> > configured somewhere, the download would fail. But I don't think we have 
> > many
> > such urls...
> 
> We aren't the only ones who set up repositories. Organizations which
> run Fedora and RHEL often have internal repositories, which may use
> FTP.

To clarify: ftp still works, even with the changes in flight. The discussion
about dropping ftp was mostly theoretical. AFAIK, curl maintainers don't
plan to do this atm.

Zbyszek
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