[Libosinfo] [PATCH 3/3] debian: Add needs-internet flag for JEOS script

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Lasse Schuirmann
<lasse.schuirmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-08-13 14:51 GMT+02:00 Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak at gnome.org>:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Lasse Schuirmann
>> <lasse.schuirmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe it is possible to avoid the need of an internet connection in this
>>> script but the current version will ask a question to the user if the
>>> connection is not present.
>>> ---
>>
>> What question? IIRC you told me this is only needed for desktop script
>> because of script installing GNOME and it not always being present on
>> the media?
>
> IIRC this is correct too but when I tested yesterday I got a message
> without the internet connection. Something like:
>
> "No internet connection present. Do you want to continue without it?"
>
> I can grab the exact message later. Takes a lot of time to test those things...

I know how you feel. :( If it makes you feel any better, I have worked
on windows express installations for months in a row and there you
don't usually even get clues of what exactly is wrong.

> Maybe debian tries to grab the newest packages or so and there may be
> some way to avoid that. (Thats what the FIXME's for.) I tried to
> preseed this question when I was building the desktop script but found
> no way at that time. I think that this kind of question is not meant
> to be preseeded in the first place thats why I stopped searching
> assuming that it may well be impossible.

OK, if you can't readily find the option to disable that, we can go
with this patch but we need more context in the comment and especially
in the commit log then.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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