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=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
>
> 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.
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