don't try to use curl with https, it requires a wrapper to work

pkgupdate

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ export PKG_PATH="${INSTALLURL}/$(uname -r)/packages-stable/$(machine)/"
 CACHE_DIR=/var/cache/pkgupdate/
 
 
+# curl can only be used for http:// , it's quite complicated with https://
+# due to the way pkg_add calls $FETCH_CMD
 def_curl() {
     if type curl 2> /dev/null >/dev/null
     then
@@ -54,7 +56,9 @@ do_http() {
 }
 
 do_https() {
-    do_http "https://"
+    echo "Updating using $1 protocol"
+    check_cache
+    pkg_add -u 2>&1 | grep -v "^Couldn't find updates for "
 }
 
 unsupported() {