** Description changed: - In every currently supported Ubuntu version of wget, the wget-udeb + In the Ubuntu raring (13.04) version of wget, there is a wget-udeb which installs its binary executable to /usr/bin/wget.gnu. This is presumably done in order to not break any setups that depend on busybox's wget implementation. - However, since the primary reason wget-udeb exists is because of the - lack of SSL support in d-i and busybox-wget, it seems logical (to me) - that it should overwrite the busybox wget symlink. You're choosing to - opt-in to GNU wget, so you're already rebuilding d-i/debian-cd and - therefore know you're somewhat on your own. + However, since the primary reason wget-udeb exists in Ubuntu (wget-udeb + is not built in Debian afaik) is because of the lack of SSL support in + d-i and busybox-wget, it seems logical (to me) that it should overwrite + the busybox wget symlink. You're choosing to opt-in to GNU wget, so + you're already rebuilding d-i/debian-cd and therefore know you're + somewhat on your own. Unless there is a common use case I'm not considering where you want SSL support for something else, but somehow depend on the busybox implementation of wget for all things apt. What I expect to happen: 1) modify d-i source to include wget-udeb 2) rebuild d-i and point my sources to HTTPS repositories 3) install Ubuntu without fear of the traffic being snooped in transit What happens instead: 1) modify d-i source to include wget-udeb 2) rebuild d-i and point sources to HTTPS repositories 3) install fails because d-i calls /usr/bin/wget which points to busybox (which has no SSL support) Thanks for your time! Please note: this suggestion is not intended to securely authenticate the repository; that's absolutely another issue. This is simply to address potential snooping of traffic in transit.
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