Bug#885455: live-boot: Please drop wget from initrd (busybox provides wget)
Am Mittwoch, den 21.02.2018, 10:08 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > The wget binary depends on many libraries. On Debian 9 (stretch)
> > these
> > are: libffi6, libgnutls30, libhogweed4, libidn11, libidn2-0,
> > libnettle6,
> > libp11-kit0, libpsl5, libtasn1-6, libunistring0. In total 8
> > megabytes.
> > This increases the initramfs size a lot. To save space, use wget
> > from
> > busybox instead. Commit 4328832d0 that adds wget does not give a
> > reason
> > why busybox's wget is not used. A patch is tested and attached.
>
> The usual reason is for "https" support. Have you tried to use https
> URLs in the various places where we can use URLs?
Okay. I did some tests in a minimal schroot environment:
(stretch)root@konstrukt:~# dpkg -s busybox | grep ^Version
Version: 1:1.22.0-19+b3
(stretch)root@konstrukt:~# busybox wget https://bugs.debian.org/
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://bugs.debian.org/
(buster)root@konstrukt:~# dpkg -s busybox | grep ^Version
Version: 1:1.27.2-2
(buster)root@konstrukt:~# busybox wget https://bugs.debian.org/
Connecting to bugs.debian.org (209.87.16.39:443)
Connecting to www.debian.org (5.153.231.4:443)
index.html 100% |***************| 18089 0:00:00 ETA
So busybox in stretch does not support HTTPS, but it supports HTTPS in
testing/unstable.
I also verified that running wget on a https URL inside the minimal
boot=live initramfs works.
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