Bug#842040: Please add https support
Niltze [Hello]!
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Marga Manterola <marga@google.com> wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: normal
>
> The installer currently doesn't support downloading packages from https
> mirrors, because busybox's wget doesn't support https.
In order to add SSL support to BusyBox wget, itself to be used wih
ssl_helper, I used matrixssl-3-4-2-open.tgz
< http://www.matrixssl.org/ >
to build my custom BusyBox udeb for my Reiser4-enabled Debian-Installer
< https://sf.net/projects/debian-reiser4/ >
No idea if suggestion fulfills bug need - just my 2 cents ;-)
>
> The wget package has been changed to provide a udeb, compiled against the
> libssl udeb, so that it provides https support.
>
> The change needed in d-i is to add the wget udeb and it's dependencies
> (libcrypto1.0.2, libssl1.0.2 and libpcre3) to the initrd.
>
> Regarding total size (as this was mentioned when I discussed this in the
> past), this is the size of the needed udebs:
> -rw-r----- 1 marga marga 878072 Sep 26 20:17
> libcrypto1.0.2-udeb_1.0.2j-1_amd64.udeb
> -rw-r----- 1 marga marga 153852 Aug 19 12:59 libpcre3-udeb_8.39-2_amd64.udeb
> -rw-r----- 1 marga marga 141318 Sep 26 20:17
> libssl1.0.2-udeb_1.0.2j-1_amd64.udeb
> -rw-r----- 1 marga marga 147960 Sep 26 15:19 wget-udeb_1.18-4_amd64.udeb
>
> And this is the size difference of the old initrd and the new one:
> -rw-r----- 1 marga eng 22580707 Oct 25 02:07 initrd.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 marga eng 23381570 Oct 25 15:11 newinitrd.gz
>
> So, approximately 780k extra for the initrd image (3.5% increase)
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Cheers,
> Marga
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