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External SVN repository while building

Asked by p00h

My package depends on external SVN repository while building, but svn checkout command usually fails with message "svn: E670002: Name or service not known".
It seems there is either no internet connection available or DNS server is not accessible.

Is it possible to get external SVN code while building process using valid DNS name?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

I'm sorry, no, this is not something we're going to allow, both for quality reasons (it makes builds more vulnerable to breaking because the remote site goes down) and security reasons (anyone with an email address can build code in PPAs, and we don't want them to turn into a botnet). You will have to fetch the code from the repository in question and bundle it either directly in your source package or in one of its build-dependencies.

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p00h (p00hzone) said : 		#2

Thank you for reply.