Joey Hess (2013-10-12):
> Have you ever looked at the debian-installer source package's network
> use? I'm just saying.
Fetching packages from the same mirror isn't exactly the same as wgetting a
file from an http location without any kind of verification. I'm just saying.
src:debian-installer's
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> [ Side notes:
>1. It's a serious bug to depend on the network;
>2. It's also not deterministic to allow failure in doing so. ]
Have you ever looked at the debian-installer source package's network
use? I'm just saying. If I were throwing arbitrary rules out there,
Christian PERRIER (2013-10-12):
> Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org):
>
> > That should ensure we see the need for an update while we're preparing
> > the source package, and that we take appropriate measures when that
> > happens. What do you think?
>
> Ack. I'm sure I can still find a w
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org):
> That should ensure we see the need for an update while we're preparing
> the source package, and that we take appropriate measures when that
> happens. What do you think?
Ack. I'm sure I can still find a way to still fail from time to time
but, eh...yo
Christian PERRIER (2013-10-12):
> That seems fairexcept that, being a frequent uploader of
> choose-mirror, I'm very likely to forget about that when building it
> then committing back after the build (as I'm building in pbuilder, the
> Mirrors.masterlist file in my local git checkout is not u
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org):
> Hi,
>
> some background: choose-mirror is a bit special in that it fetches
> during the source build (when online) an updated version of the mirror
> list[1] and embeds it into the source package. The Said file is
> .gitignore'd, meaning it doesn't show
Hi,
some background: choose-mirror is a bit special in that it fetches
during the source build (when online) an updated version of the mirror
list[1] and embeds it into the source package. The Said file is
.gitignore'd, meaning it doesn't show up in choose-mirror's git repo /
history. This also me
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