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apt-mirror package

apt-mirror does not support https

Bug #1003672 reported by Leonardo Borda
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apt-mirror (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hi,

Some providers in order to provide custom packages use repositories containing user and password for authentication. When such repos are specified using https apt-mirror is not able to download the files.
https is necessary since user and password are sent in http curl calls.

Example:
deb https://user:<email address hidden>/

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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

This looks like a feature request, not a bug report, to me. Assigned to Foundations Team so they can take a look.

Changed in apt-mirror (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
Revision history for this message
Leonardo Borda (lborda) wrote :

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the comment.
I discover it when configuring Landscape Dedicated Server and having apt-mirror configured on the same network.
Currently canonical provides the Landscape Dedicated Server through a username/password https repo.

Leonardo

Revision history for this message
Pali (pali) wrote :

Apt-mirror using wget for download and wget has native https support. But apt-mirror does not tell wget to use basic http authentication for https transfers, so this can be problem written in this bug.

Anyway, I created patch for apt-mirror which add configuration option to tell wget to use basic http authentication, see bug #1015131

Brandon Holtsclaw (imbrandon)
Changed in apt-mirror (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in apt-mirror (Ubuntu):
assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → nobody
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