Cannot download busybox with busybox

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 6 15:02:02 UTC 2017


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Kang-Che Sung <explorer09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And the analogy of p7zip is a failure. Every FOSS package has its own
> bootstrapping problem to address. GCC needs a C++ compiler; tar needs a copy of
> tar to unpack its own sources.

Well, in this case I probably *can* persuade hosting to make an exception
for "https everywhere" policy. But this would create more work
for several people for a rather small benefit.

Older versions busybox already _had_ https support, but it required a small
external helper tool.

Suspecting that people would not know and/or bother installing that tool,
I added internal TLS support. But I can't go back in time and retroactively
insert it in old versions.


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