On 04/04/2017 12:45 PM, anonym wrote:
> I don't know what you mean with "Tor download" -- the build system itself 
> doesn't run or use tor.

I was talking about the tor browser that is downloaded in
`config/chroot_local-hooks/10-tbb`, through a series of `curl` commands.
This part takes forever to complete. I didn't notice that it was cached
as well.

> Any way, the "offline" option is supposed to enable a true offline building 
> mode, and if a build fails due to lack of Internet access, that is a bug. It 
> relies on all interactions with the Internet being done with applications 
> that respect the http_proxy environment variable (which points to 
> apt-cacher-ng, which is configured to allow downloading and caching more than 
> just .deb:s). Specifically, `wget` respects http_proxy, and apparently so do 
> all the various mechanisms used to fetch firmwares and other files in the 
> post-install scripts of all .deb:s Tails uses.

Ok, I guess I just have to try it, I'll see how it goes and will let you
know if anything bad happens.

> If you know C, perhaps you'd want to look into implementing (optional) 
> download retrying in apt-cacher-ng? That would, of course, be the best 
> solution.

I'm comfortable with C, but not comfortable at all with these network
and proxy things ;) But it's nice that you point me in the right
direction. At least I know where to look next.

Cheers.


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