Re: Offline mode for cme (Was: I guess its not cme but Debian infrastructure (Was: cme cannot connect to api.ftp-master.debian.org))

[Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>]

Hello

cme can indeed work with cached data. The only danger of this modification is 
that people can use stale package information without noticing.

May be we should enable this behavior with an environment variable or a 
command switch (I'd rather have a switch, but I'm not sure that easy to 
implement given the architecture of cme)

All the best

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From: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
Sent: 10:51
To: debian-perl@lists.debian.org, Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>
Cc: 
Subject: Offline mode for cme (Was: I guess its not cme but Debian 
infrastructure (Was: cme cannot connect to api.ftp-master.debian.org))

Hi again,

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 07:36:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> currently tracker.d.o returns "Server Error (500)" and buildd.d.o
> "Internal Server Error".  Seems cme depends from something that is
> not working currently.

This brings up an old idea I had:  Sometimes I'd like to use cme when
beeing offline.  What about if cme would only issue a warning that it
can not get the information it needs from remote and finish all tasks it
can do when beeing offline?

Should I file a wishlist bug report about this?

Kind regards

        Andreas.