Re: Documentation building broken in CFBot

> On 11 Nov 2020, at 16:43, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>>> On 11 Nov 2020, at 15:51, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>> I do wonder if it's worth it to update the doc build documentation[1] as
>>> well to mention this?
>
>> Well, ideally you would never encounter this error if you install the packages
>> listed as required.
>
> 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.

..and it will most likely come as a surprise to most. I think we should start
doing that.

cheers ./daniel