Re: Pre-approval for apt 0.7.21: 'Valid-Until' feature and proxy changes
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> writes:
> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> I've removed some CC's.
>>
>> On Mon, January 19, 2009 12:47, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>>> 1) insert apt-transport-https and all its deps into base system (libcurl,
>>> kerberos etc.)
>>
>> I'm not sure if we need kerberos for this to work. Just like apt uses a
>> small version of gnupg to verify signatures, we can use a small version of
>> the https transport that satisfies our needs?
> apt-transport-https really depends only on curl, but curl itself has
> significant amount of dependencies, so maybe, it depends how the curl binary
> package could be split.
Or we might consider an alternative way to provide a https method. Did
someone taken a look how difficult would be to write one?
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