[U-Boot] U-Boot - Download URL and certificates

[Markus Niebel]

Hello

Am 07.10.2015 um 21:22 schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Markus,
> 
> In message <56122FA6.8010201 at tqsc.de> you wrote:
>>
>> we are facing problems with downloading U-Boot tarballs and
>> automated build systems.
> 
> Tarballs?  But that should be trivial.  Tarballs are easily available
> on the FTP server.  They are also eavailable on ACD, but this is not
> exactly easy to script.  See [1], bullet # 2 for details.
> 
> Alternatively, you can always use the snapshot links from the git
> repository to dynamically create and download tarballs of arbitrary
> versions in the git repo.  This is also trivial to script (but please
> minimize such use to the necessary, as it puts a high load on the git
> server).
> 
> 
>> The old URL are redirected to owncloud.denx.de and owncloud.denx.de
>> uses a self signed certificate.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "old URL"?
> 

Thank you for clarification. When digging a bit deeper I saw that
something on out side messes with URLs - there is a mixup with 
ftp and http - and in fact http://ftp.denx.de gets redirected to an
owncloud URL. Have to look in this.

> owncloud.denx.de is in no way used for distributing the mainline
> versions of U-Boot.  We host a number of customer specific
> repositories there, that's true, but these customers know how to
> access it.  I don't think that there are any TQ specific repositories
> on our owncloud server.
> 
> 
>> Did we miss the hint where to get the certificate(s)?
> 
> I think you must be doing something wrong.  No certificates are needed
> to download the tarballs from the FTP server, ACD or git. 
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/SourceCode
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

Thanks again and sorry for the noise

Best regards,

Markus