Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:18:30 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet connection required for website builds? Message-ID: <3C910596.2010905@pittgoth.com> References: <20020314195300.GA932@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
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Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Today I ran the usual "webupdate" script over an updated repo to build > the docs and the website. > > But sometimes I looked over to the logs and when it arrived at > the gnome subdir, I saw that it was busy downloading an rdf file > from the Internet. > > And sure enough, www/en/gnome/Makefile has this: > > > # $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/Makefile,v 1.9 2002/02/11 16:54:52 sobomax Exp $ > > <...> > > CLEANFILES= index.html > CLEANFILES+= newsflash.html > CLEANFILES+= gnotices.rdf > > GNOTICES_RDF_URL= http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/rdf > > <...> > > gnotices.rdf:: > /usr/bin/fetch -qo - ${GNOTICES_RDF_URL} | ${SED} 's|rdf:RDF|rdf| ; \ > s|xmlns.*[^>]||' > ${.TARGET} > > In other words, it assumes an Internet connection unconditionally when > building the website. I think this is wrong since there is no warning > about this beforehand and I do not know for sure what happens when fetch > (working in "quiet" mode by virtue of the -q flag) cannot load the > specified file. I think that this should be made conditional so that people > to whom Internet usage costs are an issue might not be caught by > surprise. > > I think that the rdf file should either be merged with the site or cut all togeather instead of just a warning... Thats my opinion though... -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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