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