Bug#507070: scrollkeeper: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 29 novembre 2008 à 12:01 -0800, Ross Boylan a écrit :
> I don't know much about the machinery behind this, but if I understand
> the exchanges so far, the theory is that because xml-core and friends
> were being updated a reference, that would normally be found locally,
> was not found.  The result was an attempt to retrieve the same thing
> from the internet.  However, I don't understand what would have
> prevented successful internet access.

I think that past versions of docbook were accessing Internet DTDs over
the network but that it is now explicitly disabled, because it could
hang the build on some build daemons.

> I'll switch to rarian-compat; is there some reason to think it won't
> exhibit the same problem?

Yes: the scrollkeeper-update binary provided by rarian-compat doesn’t do
anything. Rarian doesn’t need the files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper at all.

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