Re: cause of install failure

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 22/03/13 18:05, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Copy the defaults.xml file shown here to the profile.xml file shown above it.
>>
>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma?download
>> Simply change http://  to https://  here in the profile.xml file.
>
> That'll make mingw-get use https when fetching the catalogue files, but
> not when downloading packages.  To apply the change consistently, you
> would also need to modify every "download-host" entry in every one of
> those catalogue files, (106 of them, and some with more than one
> occurrence), and you'd need to repeat the exercise every time you run
> "mingw-get update", for the subset of those catalogues which are
> replaced each time, (not always the same subset).

Is there any downside to https being the normal?  I.E.: Should we
modify the xml files to use https?

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