I've only ever used the http support in pkgadd as a one-off on legacy sol10 hosts. I'd rather use curl followed by pkgadd, which is what I do for $work.
Sent Fromm my iPhone > On Aug 7, 2014, at 10:10, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't know that SVR4 packaging was using that http code. Yikes. I had > done some cleanups of the SVR4 code base in the past, and I can see your > point that having the network retrieval handled by a higher level facility > feels better. I didn't think anyone actually *used* that network retrieval > support in pkgadd? > > Package signing could be handled by lower level crypto facilities in > libpkcs11, although I suppose we are getting certificate management from > OpenSSL as well. > > Other folks with strong feelings about this feel free to pipe up now. > > >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-developer >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ok, let's put it this way. We have an intention to remove wanboot from >>> illumos. If *anyone* will be impacted by this, or realistically >>> anticipates being impacted by it (recognizing that it only affects SPARC, >>> and that TFTP network booting will remain possible), please speak up NOW. >> >> Something else: SVR4 packaging uses wanboot code to provide its >> http client support. I would be more than happy for that code and the >> ability for pkgadd to directly retrieve packages via http to be removed. >> (In Tribblix, packages are retrieved using higher-level facilities - the >> builtin functionality in pkgadd is rubbish.) >> >> I would also love to see the package signing in SVR4 packaging (which >> is another openssl dependency) be removed as well; I would personally >> clean out both the openssl and wanboot dependencies at the same time. >> I may even be able to find time to do some of the work. >> >> (As a maintainer of one of the SVR4-based distros, I feel reasonably >> qualified to comment on this area. I do know, however, that Martin is >> of the opposite view and regards keeping network retrieval in pkgadd >> as important.) >> >> Although if we carry on at this rate we won't have any consumers >> of openssl left. >> >>> This may well impact folks with SPARC based distributions. I'm not aware >>> of any of those that support wanboot, but this serves as advance warning. >>> >>> If you care at all about wanboot, SPEAK UP NOW or forever hold your peace. >>> >>> I'm cross-posting to illumos-discuss just in case someone there has a >>> configuration where this is an issue. >>> >>> Distribution maintainers, an affirmative reply that you've received this, >>> and can confirm that you have no impact (or that you do), would be >>> appreciated. >> >> On behalf of Tribblix, I can cheerfully state that I would love to >> see wanboot get torched. >> >> -- >> -Peter Tribble >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
