Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] global: convert all http to https

Andrew Geissler
2026-01-22T17:57:31Z

Thanks for the reviews and feedback. My git email skills are fairly limited
so I hope my next patch comes through ok.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 6:41 AM Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2026-01-19 at 13:29 +0100, Alexander Kanavin via
> lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > I don't necessarily disagree with the conversion, but I would like
> > proper verification of all links, and not not just 'some random
> > validation'. You can extract all the new links from the patch and
> > write a script that runs wget on them perhaps.

ok, I wrote a script to validate the new SRC_URI updates. It found a
few issues which I documented in the updated commit and just left
those as http.

> >
> > I also want to point out that there's no mechanism to enforce
> > https-only layer metadata. New http links will creep in, there's no
> > test to stop them.

Yeah, be great to get something into CI but hopefully with the vast
majority of examples being https it will naturally work itself out.

> > > For testing I confirmed core-image-minimal still builds and did some
> > > random validation of the links changed (but not every one of them).
>
> Further to what Alex said: This patch needs splitting up to make it
> reviewable. Perhaps one patch changing links in comments, one patch
> changing links in HOMEPAGE/BUGTRACKER variables, and one patch changing
> SRC_URI entries.

ok, for now I changed the patch to just do the SRC_URI updates.