From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 09:42:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] download: Add SFTP support (not FTPS) In-Reply-To: References: <20191003145251.8647-1-thomas.preston@codethink.co.uk> Message-ID: <20191006074253.GL10860@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Carlos, All, On 2019-10-05 00:02 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 11:53 AM Thomas Preston > wrote: > > Add secure file transfer program (sftp) support using a simple wrapper. > > SFTP is similar to FTP but it preforms all operations over an encrypted > > SSH transport. [--SNIP--] > You intend to add packages that require this feature, I suppose. I agree with you that we usually do require that we have in-tree users of new infrastructures. However, for the download mechanisms, we already have two of them that have no in-tree users: cvs and scp. While cvs is a remnant for the days-past, scp is mostly used for internal resources in enterprise networks. I expect sftp to be used in the same situation as scp is. So, I don't see a reason to block it, but as you point out, without an in-tree user, we can't guarantee the feature will not break. So, I asked Thomas he sent an updated patch with a test-case. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'