Re: Documentation building broken in CFBot

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Documentation building broken in CFBot
Date: 2020-11-11 16:11:30
Message-ID: 2531528.1605111090@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> On 11/11/20 10:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wonder if we should start passing "--nonet" to xmllint et al. I've
>> always felt that that silent reach into the internet was an anti-feature
>> on numerous grounds: it's slow, it's not very secure, it makes the results
>> uncertainly reproducible, etc etc etc.

> It was still bugging out for me locally with --nonet, but that could
> also be operator error.

The point of --nonet is that then you would *have to* install the DTDs
locally in order to build the docs.

(Well, I wouldn't be quite that draconian about it; if we do this,
I think it should be more like "we use --nonet by default but you can
override that".)

regards, tom lane

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