From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerzy Grzegorek Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:47:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] github tarball urls: http vs https In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52753AB6.20904@trzebnica.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Thomas, > Hi, > > Packages that are hosted on github and downloaded with the tarball > method, can either have a http or https URL. It seems that a download > from http is redirected to the corresponding https URL. To avoid such > an unnecessary redirect, we could update all github .mk files to use > https directly. > > I vaguely recall a discussion on the mailing list about this, but I > don't know what the outcome was. Was there a problem using the https > URLs with respect to certificates? It was my proposal. Please look here: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-October/079209.html Regards, Jerzy > If we can clarify this point, we can cleanup and update the manual > (which talks about http). > > Thanks, > Thomas >