[Starlingx-discuss] Adding packages to build .lst files

[Scott Little]

Do we trust every link on google to point to a malware free version of 
the package ?

I think it's ill advised to take the human out of the loop.  At most, 
list the validated download url's found... along with a warning from all 
but a few trusted url's.

Scott



On 18-07-23 03:58 PM, Ponce Castaneda, Guillermo A wrote:
> Hello team,
>
> I am giving it another try to introduce and automatic package downloader
> to the mirror creation process, this time I managed to actually write it
> on python3.
>
> The goal of this tool is still the same, to avoid the hassle of manually go
> looking and downloading failing packages from Google and just run a
> single command instead.
>
> You can go and review the code here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/585009/
> I really appreciate any feedback, specially opportunities of improvement and any
> kind comments.
>
> Thank You
>   - Guillermo Ponce
>
>
> On 7/18/18, 12:42 PM, "Ponce Castaneda, Guillermo A" <guillermo.a.ponce.castaneda at intel.com> wrote:
>
>      
>      
>      >>On 7/18/18, 11:47 AM, "Dean Troyer" <dtroyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>      
>          >>On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Ponce Castaneda, Guillermo A
>          >><guillermo.a.ponce.castaneda at intel.com> wrote:
>          >>>     That is correct, I do not think there is another node.js code, and that is why I
>          >>>     also created a Dockerfile so nobody has to install node on their machines and
>          >>>     just run it inside a container.
>          
>          >>I'm sorry but I do not consider requiring Docker and some non-trivial
>          >>OS image to run a simple script to be an improvement.  It isn't just
>          >>the installation of the runtime it is also the cognitive overhead of
>          >>requiring another bit of language expertise to maintain the tool.  If
>          >>this were a node project I'd say the same thing about introducing a
>          >>python script.
>      
>          >Thanks for the feedback Dean,
>          >I will the improve this tool on the points you are mentioning and will try going
>          >at it again.
>          
>          >>dt
>      
>          >Guillermo Ponce
>          
>          >--
>          
>          >>Dean Troyer
>          >>dtroyer at gmail.com
>          
>      
>      
>
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