netbsd.org serving ftp and http
Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:25:08 -0500
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There is discussion over on tech-pkg about changes to pkg_install, one of which is breaking ftp/http by default and making people enable it. It strikes me that this is inconsistent with TNF offering ftp/http for obtaining software, and if there is a "this is not ok" position it should be broadly applied. So, what's the status and plan for ftp and http (non-TLS) being served from netbsd.org, including CDN. Is there a plan to discontinue, and a timeframe? Or is there no plan and it is expected to persist indefinitely? Are there reasons it remains, in terms of it being useful to people who can't use https? Or is it simply "it's traditional, and if that's how someone chooses to get bits we should be cooperative"? I would not have questioned this, absent a proposal to break this functionality in pkg_add by default.