On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 01/23/2015 03:22 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Dnia 2015-01-23, o godz. 14:26:48
> > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> >
> >> On 01/23/2015 02:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> >>> To help you enable the correct USE flags, we are providing a Python
> >>> script which generates the correct value from your /proc/cpuinfo [1].
> >>> The Python script can be downloaded and executed using the following
> >>> command:
> >>>
> >>>   $ wget -O - dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py | python
> >>
> >> Can we not encourage people to pipe stuff from a plain-http website into
> >> an interpreter?
> >
> > Find a better solution.
>

If you trust GitHub, put it on a Gist, and it'll be accessible via HTTPS
and SSH.
If the "raw" URL is too ugly, and you trust Google, use the HTTPS version
of goo.gl to shorten it.


> Even `wget --no-check-certificate` would be a big improvement. Or since
> Firefox seems happy with the dev.gentoo.org certificate, we could just
> ask them to download it with their browsers.
>
> Longer term: can we make wget like our SSL certificate?


"DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA" is not in ca-certificates.
Funnily, DigiCert's download link for it is via plain HTTP so reasonable
paranoia demands manually verifying the chain after downloading.

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