Re: [gentoo-dev] the default FETCHCOMMAND with broken ssl certificates

[Lars Strojny]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:46:39PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
[...] 
> It is usually not a problem for users because the file gets mirrored but
> when doing version bumps I come across this again. As a solution I added
> - --no-check-certificate to my FETCHCOMMAND so this will not bother me
> again.
> 	So what about adding this as the default for everyone? The verification
> of the download is done on our side so we don't really need the ssl
> certificate checking and it would probably be (very?) little faster
> without checking. It could also prevent a couple of bug reports from the
> users in the future.

Would be sensible. Also it would make sense to add --user-agent="Whatever" 
to the default configuration, because there are some mirrors of free 
software which do not like interacting with a client with an empty user-
agent string.

Greets, Lars
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