From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EcZhc-0007FI-5Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:40:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH2e1xa019393; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:40:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH2cEqd023777 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:38:14 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.193]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcZfC-0007w3-5M for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:38:14 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1535912wra for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:38:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=cs8gU7PvCDwJCFVVwWsok3PY64UaeW4bw/sl3DxprHUtJgTsYNf1dWJut2QwFEiFhBvmu+TJ6PVT52JoKTQstiykkd5xuqROyukpNSld8V+iU4kUGvc+ZI1mspGokjwMTfIR1VSxBbhP+bbncymHqfT64MpdDYkl2/vu8UwEzl4= Received: by 10.54.66.3 with SMTP id o3mr4255331wra; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.15 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:38:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10511161838k11292fc9q428fb3db351dfafb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:38:13 +0000 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES=test and the internet Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAH2cEqd023777 X-Archives-Salt: f3d2e279-4f38-4c99-a4df-340a15c1d471 X-Archives-Hash: c4cc6d569805966a4dd3afdc5e390096 I've been running my latest install with features=test, makes it simple to test packages requiring stablizization and all that... at least partially.. However, I've seen a few packages that fetch stuff during the test phase from the internet, which seems like a _really_ bad idea to me. For 1, what if I -f while dialed up and then disconnect, and for two, what happens if the site it's connecting to is down? These can both effect the outcome of my emerge. So far, I've seen one of each libxml2 fetches a DTD, it fetched fine, but if I had not had internet... it probably would have died, a simple possible fix to this is to add the dtd to SRC_URI, but this an extra thing to handle for people without FEATURES="test", and without feature-specific deps (farily useless overall), there would have to be a USE="test" to take advantage of this. The other is net-misc/neon, this one has a down upstream server, and the build died because of this Only way I can think of to fix this is to disable the test. Test policy seems fairly vague in general, maybe this is a good time to clarify//enforce it? Opinions? Comments? Flames? Thats what the mailing list is for! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list