From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4433 invoked by alias); 10 Mar 2017 20:24:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 4418 invoked by uid 89); 10 Mar 2017 20:24:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1198, administrator, equipped, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:24:45 +0000 Received: from vsmx003.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.197]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028AB3E01AF for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [91.47.53.218]) by mta-7-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8D49F300158 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:24:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Providing/Packaging a Postinstalled SUSV4 Doc only Package a la Debian References: <91db6139-2463-da44-f9ec-0f0413b3367d@tiscali.co.uk> <20170310201023.GA21500@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20170310201023.GA21500@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:10:23 +0100") Message-ID: <87lgsc7ud3.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-VADE-SCORE: 0 X-VADE-REASON: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeelhedrgeekgddufeekucetufdoteggodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucevfgfuvffqoffgtfdpucggtfgfnhhsuhgsshgtrhhisggvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhephffvufhfffgjkfgfgggtsehttdertddtredtnecuhfhrohhmpeettghhihhmucfirhgrthiiuceoufhtrhhomhgvkhhosehnvgigghhordguvgeqnecuffhomhgrihhnpehsthhrohhmvghkohdrnhgvthenucfkphepledurdegjedrheefrddvudeknecurfgrrhgrmhepmhhouggvpehsmhhtphdqohhuthdphhgvlhhopefivghrthhruhgupdhinhgvthepledurdegjedrheefrddvudekpdhmrghilhhfrhhomhepufhtrhhomhgvkhhosehnvgigghhordguvgdprhgtphhtthhopegthihgfihinhdqrghpphhssegthihgfihinhdrtghomh X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Otherwise, I am nervous about setting a precedent for a package that could >> give different contents each time it is installed (yes, Microsoft, I'm >> looking at you too). And there are plenty of corner cases where this >> wouldn't work: offline installs, web proxies, or if the account performing >> the Cygwin install (e.g. Administrator) was blocked from accessing the web >> (on security grounds). > > This is another interesting point of course. Does wget or curl allow > to specify a (short) timeout before giving up and just not installing > anything, perhaps? Regardless if that is possible (I think it is), I would not accept such a package into the standard distribution. For one, setup is not really equipped to handle such packages properly. Two, I really can't allow anything to download something from outside the internal network during the installation even where it might work. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada