Re: Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
Frans Pop wrote: I still think your setup is what's broken here. Why would you want outside DNS resolution if you can't reach anywhere anyway? FWIW I once saw such a setup used so that logresolve could be used. Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
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=HEADcvsroot=webwmlcontent-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, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
tags 395262 important thanks On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: 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=HEADcvsroot=webwmlcontent-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 This doesn't cause a build failure, because all errors are checked and a failure in wget is ignored. Downgrading accordingly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
severity 395262 important tags 395262 + patch thanks (setting severity to important since that's probably what you wanted to do :-) On 25/10/06 at 15:15 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: tags 395262 important thanks On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: 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=HEADcvsroot=webwmlcontent-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 This doesn't cause a build failure, because all errors are checked and a failure in wget is ignored. Downgrading accordingly. Agreed, but one problem with wget is that it tries extremly hard to download files (retries 20 times by default, with a 900 seconds timeout each time !). I would recommend changing the wget call so that it runs wget --timeout=60 --tries=2, which would be much more tolerable than waiting for 20*900=18000 seconds. Tagging +patch, even if this is just a workaround to make the situation slightly better. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
On 26/10/06 at 01:27 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 26 October 2006 00:27, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I would recommend changing the wget call so that it runs wget --timeout=60 --tries=2, which would be much more tolerable than waiting for 20*900=18000 seconds. Please explain in which specific case this is needed. AFAICT wget fails immediately if it cannot resolve the host name it is looking for, so AFAICT you are talking about a setup here where an address does resolve, but cannot be accessed. I don't know if we want to make any changes to defaults to allow for that sort of (broken) setup. I run archive-wide tests on a HPC cluster where DNS resolution works, but it's not possible to reach the outside world to protect it from possible DDOS attacks. Building choose-mirror just takes hours on this cluster because of this. I agree that this setup is probably not perfect, but I'm not in a position to change it currently. If you don't want to add a workaround for this now, please at least reopen the bug and set severity to wishlist. I will try to work on it post-etch. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
On Thursday 26 October 2006 00:27, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I would recommend changing the wget call so that it runs wget --timeout=60 --tries=2, which would be much more tolerable than waiting for 20*900=18000 seconds. Please explain in which specific case this is needed. AFAICT wget fails immediately if it cannot resolve the host name it is looking for, so AFAICT you are talking about a setup here where an address does resolve, but cannot be accessed. I don't know if we want to make any changes to defaults to allow for that sort of (broken) setup. pgphziHqxJNBk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build
If you don't want to add a workaround for this now, please at least reopen the bug and set severity to wishlist. I will try to work on it post-etch. No sorry, I don't see any reason to keep this bug open as choose-mirror builds perfectly for any individual d-i developer and on all the buildds. I still think your setup is what's broken here. Why would you want outside DNS resolution if you can't reach anywhere anyway? IMHO this really is a total non-bug from a Debian point of view. I suggest you just add an exclude list for your test suite and put choose-mirror in that. Cheers, FJP pgpXAV217rC6R.pgp Description: PGP signature
