[Buildroot] [PATCH] download: Add SFTP support (not FTPS)
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Oct 7 16:32:38 UTC 2019
Thomas, All,
On 2019-10-07 10:09 +0100, Thomas Preston spake thusly:
> On 06/10/2019 08:36, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2019-10-03 15:52 +0100, Thomas Preston spake thusly:
> >> Add secure file transfer program (sftp) support using a simple wrapper.
> >> SFTP is similar to FTP but it preforms all operations over an encrypted
> >> SSH transport.
> >
> > We'll want this to be documented in the manual, along with the other
> > download methods (in docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt).
> >
> > Also, as Carlos asked: will you be submitting a package that uses this
> > feature?
> >
> > If you do not plan to (e.g. because sftp, like scp, is most probably for
> > intra-entreprise private downloads), then it would be nice to provide a
> > test-case for this feature, otherwise it will be subject to bit-rot (if
> > we happen to modify the download infra for example, we can be sure the
> > sftp backend would not break).
> >
> > You can add a test-case in support/testing/tests/download/.
> >
>
> That's right, we require this feature for private downloads.
>
> I will add documentation in v2. As for testing, would you expect some
> kind of local SFTP server, as with:
> support/testing/tests/download/gitremote.py
>
> Or will a known-working URL do? Ie.
> sftp sftp://demo@test.rebex.net/pub/example/readme.txt /tmp
We definitely want to use a local sftp server, yes. The example you
provided does not work for me, and most probably does not work behind
restrictive, enterprise-class firewall-proxies.
We did have a tentative patch in the past about adding test for scp, but
it had comments and was not updated:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-February/242424.html
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-March/246460.html
Maybe that can serve as a basis for your sftp test...
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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