From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making package.el talk over Tor Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:53:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8734ybkqf4.fsf@disroot.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17979"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Akib Azmain Turja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 17 04:54:34 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r3pw9-0004Ry-Qm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2023 04:54:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3pvE-0003Lw-04; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:53:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3pvC-0003Lg-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3pvB-0007Hx-Cu; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:53:33 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=IO+0NlQ5Yi+oWyX3QxOCMaTYJUuq3kheXu6ED5KI7p8=; b=XIGWdItwVan0 y0dBvKWATrOZAm5HE1/4U9ZIxGcX+901CX9GFz8TzJvpb9gJH8kmI4q3U2EPok3kR5QS1gulHxBXD 30qFLkxbX1e2hdZft1nuPHLb0iSJwHsqOwlUZVd1lnVx05YgzRvFBKGYKPx4votCrRzvnk674dwMA XXPsDP/AdlXgYKgxUo69cI7wF6Sty+5tgDQKEcT44zVrr1aHKkktKM+Ix4lAB2g9rq4i2N1abjkOy u7ly0PkCXQ2ZI9XWr46I4/VQSDQojfuiFQuhP+ZQkV/44Kf9VKZPjiEXCAAZ6SbbES/NH668nUzlo RlgDL/JFlzzsUFyyGLLUoA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3pvB-0007bF-51; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:53:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8734ybkqf4.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:54:55 +0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312844 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks for replying to my question a month ago. I got so backlogged I just saw the reply. > > Can someone tell me where to find the code that actually > > communicates with the ELPA repos? Where is the best place > > to make that change? > Isearching for 'url-' reveals that the following functions use the URL > package to access the HTTP server: 'package--with-work-buffer', > 'package--archive-file-exists-p' and'package--with-response-buffer-1'. > But I think a better/safer solution will be to use torsocks. I agree, and I plan to use torsocks. But in order to do thst, I need to know where to do that. That's really what my question was about. Can you suggest where I should do that? Does the url package have a variable to specify the command to use? I could specify torsocks there. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)