Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
> 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. No sorry, I don't see any reason to keep this bug open as choose-mirror builds perfectly for any individual d-i developer and on all the build

Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
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 im

Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
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

Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/10/06 at 00:47 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:28, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Making ONLINE default to "n" would probably solve the problem. > > That is a very bad idea as it would mean we don't have any (up-to-date) > mirror selection options in choose-mirror and t

Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
severity 395262 important tags 395262 + patch thanks (setting severity to important since that's probably what you wanted to do :-) On 25/10/06 at 15:15 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > tags 395262 important > thanks > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Building

Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 395262 important thanks On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Building choose-mirror seems to require network access, since it > retrieves a file found on cvs.d.o: > if [ "$ONLINE" != n ]; then \ > if wget -nv > 'http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/webwml/english/m

Bug#395262: choose-mirror: requires internet access to build

2006-10-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: choose-mirror Version: 2.08 Severity: serious Justification: Requiring network access during build causes lots of problems Hi, Building choose-mirror seems to require network access, since it retrieves a file found on cvs.d.o: if [ "$ONLINE" != n ]; then \ if wget -nv 'http://cvs.debi