[Freeswitch-users] Problem with repository server?

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 18 March 2022 at 01:32:38, Howard Lin wrote:

> You can put a token in the https url. So you'll have the following in the
> source.list file:
> "deb https://<token_name>:<token>@files.freeswitch.org/repo/deb/xxx/xxx"
> <deb_release> main"

Ah, thank you.

I'm still intrigued as to why this has been implemented.

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 6:29 PM Antony Stone wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 March 2022 at 21:15:42, Len Graham wrote:
> > > The instructions have been updated to reflect the changes needing an
> > > auth token to access community FreeSWITCH repo
> > > https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Debian.  This is
> > > link to the email that went out if you didn't receive the email.
> > > https://mailchi.mp/freeswitch.com/announcement-566110?e=510c4217e1
> > 
> > Hm, no, certainly never seen that notice on this list.  What date was it
> > sent out?
> > 
> > Also, how does this work with cron-apt?  Can I put the token into
> > sources.list, or what?
> > 
> > I've never seen something like this needed for open source software
> > before - what was the reason for introducing it?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > Antony.

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