On Thursday, March 3, 2022 7:07:34 AM CET Ralf Corsépius wrote:
> Am 24.02.22 um 19:35 schrieb Daniel P. Berrangé:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 07:16:26PM +0100, Ralf Corsépius wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > If someone is setting up a personal private mirror, I struggle
> > to understand a reason why they would pick FTP over HTTP(S)
> > today.
> 
> Because an ftp server is much lighter and much easier to maintain than a 
> fat httpd-server?
> 
> 
> > Perhaps someone will have a FTP only mirror that's
> > existed for years and simply haven't got around to enabling
> > HTTP, but addressing that is not an unreasonable expectation.
> 
> 
> Almost. E.g. I am using a LAN-wide (anonymous-only) ftp server, I set up 
> a long time ago and rarely touched since then.
> 
> Using httpd-server would simply be overkill for this use-case.
> 
> 
> > IMHO explicitly disabling FTP in dnf would be fine, as any fallout
> > could be easily dealt with by enabling HTTP. Just ensure we announce
> > such intent ahead of time via a Fedora feature proposal.
> 
> I don't agree. Not using a protocol on public dnf-servers is on thing, 
> but removing the "ftp" protocol everywhere is just silly fanatism, IMHO.
> 
> Ralf

The FTP protocol is still included in libcurl-minimal, so the protocol is not 
going to disappear with the proposed F37 change.  On the other hand, it may 
happen that FTP will be unavailable by default in a year or two.

Kamil

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