Portage using https

[siamect]

Dear All
Is it possible to run the fetch from portage under https? I have set the GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://distfiles.gentoo.org/ " and it just tells me "Unable to establish SSL connection" so I guess there is a certificate problem.

We have a proxy with an antivirus scanner in the corporate gate out to internet.
The reason I want to do this is that some of the files get stuck in the antivirus for a long time (depenting on size) and some get stuck forever because of too many files in conpressed image or something like that.

Everything works fine except from this. So when I update world and there is a lot of files there is always a few files that get stuck until portage times out and I have to restart it again. I can manually download it using https but it is anoying.

Thanks and best regards.
Martin

[NaturalRandom]

I think https://distfiles.gentoo.org/ doesn't exist. I tried connecting in both wget and my browser and it doesn't work.

[desultory]

Have you tried copying the default FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND from /etc/make.conf.example and adding --no-check-certificate to the options passed to wget? Note that you could still encounter problems with packages which require large files to be downloaded in ways which are scanned by the proxy, which could be the case with packages with mirror restrictions. Also, using --no-check-certificate deactivates all checks on the certificate used by the server, eliminating any security advantage that using HTTPS might otherwise provide.

[siamect]

Thanks
That worked!
Still I have a long waiting time before the warning abou the certificate comes... but then it load the files properly.

Thanks a lot.
Martin

[desultory]

Not that it would actually fix that problem, but you might be able to hide it for most downloads by adding parallel-fetch to FEATURES in /etc/make.conf.