Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Luis Ressel <ara...@aixah.de> wrote:
>>
>> I might be asking this for a second time, but why does repoman download
>> the metadata.dtd at all? If one fetches from
>> git://../gentoo-mirror/gentoo (or via rsync, afaik) it is included
>> in /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/.
>
> repoman is a developer tool. The git repo used by developers does not
> include metadata.dtd.
repoman is useful for everybody who manages a local
or public repository. I guess only a small number
of these people use the developers' git repo.
(For instance, I am one of these...)
It would be nice if repoman would first check whether
the file is in some ${repo}/metadata/dtd/
and download to DISTDIR only as a fallback.
Or if it can be at least configured (e.g. with an option)
to check for this file (maybe the path can be configured, too)
before downloading metadata.dtd.
In fact, I was so annoyed by the forced downloading
(which as mentioned is a permission/security issue)
that I regularly apply a patch to portage which sets
the download interval to (almost) infinity.
Perhaps I am not the only one who did such a hack.
