From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2013-03-23 16:13:54
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 22/03/13 18:05, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> Copy the defaults.xml file shown here to the profile.xml file shown above it. >> >> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma?download >> Simply change http:// to https:// here in the profile.xml file. > > That'll make mingw-get use https when fetching the catalogue files, but > not when downloading packages. To apply the change consistently, you > would also need to modify every "download-host" entry in every one of > those catalogue files, (106 of them, and some with more than one > occurrence), and you'd need to repeat the exercise every time you run > "mingw-get update", for the subset of those catalogues which are > replaced each time, (not always the same subset). Is there any downside to https being the normal? I.E.: Should we modify the xml files to use https? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd |