On 11/11/20 11:13 AM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 11/11/20 11:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.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.
>
> Yup, I had tried installing the DTDs locally, and clearly failed at it
> :) I also did not spend too much time trying to troubleshoot my failures.
>
>> (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".)
> That sounds reasonable.
>
> Also FWIW yesterday I had tried quickly swapping the DTD references to
> use HTTPS but still hit similar issues, and per above I did not spend
> much time trying to troubleshoot.
FYI -- I don't know what, if anything changed, but I'm able to build
docs again on my macOS machine without modifying anything.
So if someone did something -- thanks!
Jonathan