Bug#842040: Please add https support
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:14:33 -0800 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com> wrote:
> 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 ;-)
Can you provide a link for your patches to busybox wget to add SSL
support? That sounds like it'd substantially decrease size compared to
including GNU wget and supporting libraries.
- Josh Triplett
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