Am 22.08.17 um 10:57 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > More precisely, several updaters rely on FTP (gnu, kernel.org, kde, > etc. see (guix gnu-maintenance)), but others rely on structured data > retrieved over HTTP(S) (pypi, cran, elpa, etc.)
For the records: KDE no longer relies on FTP access. It now fetches the ls-lR.bz2 file list using HTTPS from download.kde.org, converts it into a list of file paths and caches the list. See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36919 commit 4eb69bf0d33810886ee118f38989cef696e4c868 -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |