From 209b979f1fd84c0c1139be602b509b7b5e84faef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Hope Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:15:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Added TLS removal notice for inxi/pinxi install on README.txt --- README.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 2b5d539..ec2c9db 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -122,6 +122,19 @@ If your distribution has blocked -U self updater and you want a newer version: Open /etc/inxi.conf and change false to true: B_ALLOW_UPDATE=true +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +SPECIAL NOTE FOR LEGACY OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH NO TLS 1.2 OR GREATER: +Modern web servers are dropping support for TLS 1.0, 1.1, and so has smxi.org, +this means to install inxi onto an older system with only OpenSSL 1.1 available, +you will need to do this to install inxi onto the old system: + +wget -O /usr/local/bin/inxi ftp://ftp.smxi.org/outgoing/inxi +then update inxi/man pages after that with inxi -U 4, which uses FTP, not HTTP, +to download the file. + +For pinxi, just change inxi to pinxi above, and it will work the same. + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEVELOPMENT BRANCH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -145,6 +158,9 @@ is copied to inxi in the master branch. It's a good idea to check with pinxi if you want to make sure your issue has not been corrected, since pinxi is always equal to or ahead of inxi. +See SPECIAL NOTE FOR LEGACY OPERATING SYSTEMS above to install pinxi on very old +operating systems with out of date TLS version. + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGACY INXI (in inxi-legacy repo) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------