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and subject line Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
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Package: choose-mirror
Version: 2.08
Severity: serious
Justification: Requiring network access during build causes lots of problems
Hi,
Building choose-mirror seems to require network access, since it
retrieves a file found on cvs.d.o:
if [ "$ONLINE" != n ]; then \
if wget -nv
'http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=webwml&content-type=text/plain'
-O - > Mirrors.masterlist.new && \
test -s Mirrors.masterlist.new; then \
mv Mirrors.masterlist.new Mirrors.masterlist; \
else \
rm -f Mirrors.masterlist.new; \
fi; \
fi
Quoting from #393900 (against libwww-myspace-perl):
Accessing the network during build is bad for these reasons:
- It's a privacy concern: without being asked, some information about
the system is being sent to a remote host;
- It should be possible to autobuild the package on a buildd with no
network access.
- The test has a high probability to fail lateron because of the
referenced host (temporarily) disappearing.
Making ONLINE default to "n" would probably solve the problem.
Thank you,
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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:28, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Making ONLINE default to "n" would probably solve the problem.
That is a very bad idea as it would mean we don't have any (up-to-date)
mirror selection options in choose-mirror and thus in the installer.
There are good reasons why we download this file and as Steve has
indicated, it fails graciously if no net access is available.
Therefore closing this BR.
Cheers,
FJP
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