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On 2017-04-27 13:20, Brian Inglis wrote: > * units-2.14-1 > > The Units program converts quantities expressed in various scales to > their equivalents in other scales. The units program can handle > multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as > Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge. Units comes with an annotated, > extendable database defining over two thousand units. > > This is an update to the latest upstream release, which now supports > longer input expressions (e.g. a sum of more than 100 units), control > characters treated as white space to avoid producing errors about > invalid UTF-8, and includes 2980 units, 109 prefixes, and 96 nonlinear > units. Currency exchange rates are updated on every run of setup by a permanent postinstall script /etc/postinstall/zp_units_cur.sh running /usr/bin/units_cur to access https://rss.timegenie.com which uses HSTS to enforce https access, and whose security certificate has expired, so runs will fail with message: Error connecting to currency server. <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)> If this causes you problems, please temporarily rename the current update script /usr/bin/units_cur and replace by the attached, or replace the line between the first try: and except ...: by the following lines: [the first line is a comment, the remainder are indented two spaces] # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36600583/python-3-urllib-ignore-ssl-certificate-verification import ssl ctx = ssl.create_default_context() ctx.check_hostname = False ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE currencies = ET.parse(urllib.request.urlopen('https://rss.timegenie.com/forex.xml',context=ctx)).findall('data') to ignore the security certificate expiry until it is renewed (hopefully by sometime Tuesday after the holiday): when the security certificate has been renewed, I will follow up here to let everyone know. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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