Additional package apt-transport-https needed for https://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln in /etc/apt/sources.list

[Ian Kelling]

Jens Abromeit <jens at abromeit.info> writes:

> Hello Thomas & all!
>
> before the changes described below "aptitude update" results on my FAI
> server to "Unable to connect to fai-project.org:http:"
> I didn't check in detail in which parts of the FAI repository similiar
> changes must be made.
> But I assume, there are some, or'?
>
> *aptitude update*
> [...]
> Err http://fai-project.org jessie InRelease
> Err http://fai-project.org jessie Release.gpg
>   Unable to connect to fai-project.org:http:
> Fetched 633 kB in 2min 0s (5,271 B/s)
> W: Failed to fetch http://fai-project.org/download/dists/jessie/InRelease:
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://fai-project.org/download/dists/jessie/Release.gpg: Unable to
> connect to fai-project.org:http:
> W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
>
> I remembered, that Thomas announced the the project page now is working
> with HTTPS, so
> I changed /etc/apt/sources.list from
>
> OLD: deb http://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln
> NEW deb *https*://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln
>
> Then I got:
>
>  aptitude update
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/*methods/https could not be found.*
>
> Solution:
>
> *aptitude install apt-transport-https*
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   apt-transport-https
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded
>
> Then "aptitude update" results to:
>
> Ign https://fai-project.org jessie InRelease
> Ign https://fai-project.org jessie Release.gpg
> Ign https://fai-project.org jessie Release
> Ign https://fai-project.org jessie/koeln i386 Packages/DiffIndex
>
> Best Regards
>
> Jens

http://fai-project.org was down for me for a while this evening, and I
assume https://fai-project.org was too. By the time you switched to
https, it probably came back up.