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.
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