Re: Automatically add 'apt-transport-https' if any HTTPS mirror being used

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:37:53 +0000
schrieb "[ext] Cirujano Cuesta, Silvano"
<silvano.cirujano-cuesta@siemens.com>:

> IMHO ISAR should automatically install 'apt-transport-https' during
> debootstrapping if any of the provided mirrors uses HTTPS. Let me
> elaborate my reasons.
> 
> There are two possible scenarios WRT Debian repositories involving
> HTTPS:
> 
> 1. First mirror uses HTTPS
> 2. First mirror uses HTTP
> 
> 1. works transparently with debootstrap > 1.0.58 (see [1]), since
> 'apt- transport-https' gets automatically added to the packages to
> install if the mirror to use (the first one) uses HTTPS.
> 
> 2. WON'T WORK out of the box, since debootstrap won't install 'apt-
> transport-https' automatically (remember that it only uses the first
> one and it's not HTTPS). And therefore 'apt-transport-https' isn't
> available for installations from other mirrors (some of them being
> HTTPS).
> 
> Fixing this limitation is not very difficult, but implies overriding
> 'isar-bootstrap.inc' just to add 'apt-transport-https' to the list of
> packages to be installed by debootstrap [2]. That's not convenient,
> and kind of overkilling.
> 
> Letting ISAR handle it automatically is the solution I'd prefer, since
> it's very convenient and elegant and I don't see any drawbacks.
> 
> In case I've overseen any drawbacks, then having the possibility of
> specifying additional packages to be installed during bootstrapping
> with a variable would be much better than overriding 'isar-
> bootstrap.inc'.
> 
> Any opinions about it?

Sound like a good idea, will you send a patch?

Henning

> Regards,
>   Silvano
> 
> [1]
> https://sources.debian.org/src/debootstrap/1.0.110/debian/changelog/?hl
> =669#L669
> 
> [2]
> https://github.com/ilbers/isar/blob/6c5db020b9b837d7b0ce63bfc719f9192e7
> 25f26/meta/recipes-core/isar-bootstrap/isar-bootstrap.inc#L186
>