On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:16 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Internet access was not available from the nodes. Are build scripts > allowed to download files from the Internet during build ? Some perl > modules do this in their tests. No, this is definately a bug. I've indeed encountered it a couple of times already in Perl test suites. It's a problem because: - It's a privacy concern - without being asked, some information about the system is being sent to a remote host; - I should be able to build a package on e.g. my disconnected laptop or on your disconnected cluster; - The test has a high probability to fail lateron because of the referenced host disappearing. Scanning through your logs, I've "only" found 3 perl packages that fail on this, I'll make sure I'll file the appropriate bugs on them (libmath-randomorg-perl, libpoe-component-client-http-perl, libwww-myspace-perl). Thijs
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