On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:23 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 26.05.2012 [18:03:31 -0300], Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 16:31 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > Sometimes there are firewalls between test machines and the greater
> > > Internet, so it seems unwise to depend upon external network access in
> > > the boottool/grubby building code. But some sites won't have those
> > > restrictions. Add the ability to configure a local mirror for the grubby
> > > tarball in the CLIENT section, but default to the external location.
> > 
> > The problem with this patch is that makes boottool dependent on autotest
> > libraries, when the script itself is sometimes used in a stand alone
> > fashion. Therefore, I can't accept this as is.
> 
> Ah makes sense. I didn't realize boottool was used stand-alone, sorry.
> 
> > Cleber, I believe we should try to locate and download boottool from the
> > copy present in the autotest tree, before trying to reach out to github.
> > What do you say?
> 
> Ah I didn't even realize there was one in client/deps/grubby -- so,
> would we try and push it out with the rest of autotest? I'm not sure
> pulling will work, as the client/deps/grubby path isn't guaranteed (nor
> is it setup to be, afaict) part of the web-exposed path.

This is what I'd like to do, find a way to ensure the grubby tarball
gets copied when the client is installed. This way we wouldn't ever have
to resort to an external copy.

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