Re: pkgsrc vs. https-only master sites

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 03:18:24PM +0100, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> The problem of master sites redirecting to https or only providing
> https is growing and I think we need to make pkgsrc deal with this
> better than it does now. As you are probably aware base ftp(1) on
> NetBSD < 7 does not support https URLs.

For netbsd-6, we could merge the newer ftp. Otherwise, I would just let
the problem be solved by time...

Joerg