Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch2/crate: support user-defined protocols

Paul Barker <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:16:22 +0100

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On Wed, 2026-06-17 at 18:59 +0000, Gabriel A Smith via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From cd89f0c841d9611d79047c70045a05f6ac41da56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Gabriel Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:53:56 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] fetch2/crate: support user-defined protocols
> 
> By default HTTPS is used for crate downloads, but both HTTP and FTP are
> also supported by wget. FTP is not supported by crate registries so
> it is not recommended. This adds a protocol parameter similar to the
> git fetcher to allow a user to specify a different protocol.
> 
> Documentation has been updated to mention the new parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Smith <[email protected]>

Hi Gabriel,

What's the motivation for this patch? I don't think we should encourage
use of insecure protocols.

If there's a strong reason for supporting this, please also rebase on
top of the patch for configurable registry and index URLs support [1]
and send a v2.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bitbake-devel/[email protected]/

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

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