Don't query default homeurl over the internet on first launch #210

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taowa · 2021-04-26T20:20:44Z

taowa commented

2021-04-26 20:20:44 +00:00

Hiya,

I noticed when I first installed and ran bombadillo that the user-guide is retreived over gopher. Since there's no default configuration that can be fiddled with by a user, that makes it difficult to not navigate to it by default. I don't have any overt objections to an online user-guide, but do think a user should either be asked first, or that the first thing they see should not make a request over the internet.

I've submitted a patch for Debian here, it just opens a local file that I created from snippets of the user-guide instead.

Thanks!
Taowa

Hiya, I noticed when I first installed and ran bombadillo that the user-guide is retreived over gopher. Since there's no default configuration that can be fiddled with by a user, that makes it difficult to not navigate to it by default. I don't have any overt objections to an online user-guide, but do think a user should either be asked first, or that the first thing they see should not make a request over the internet. I've submitted a patch for Debian [here](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987628), it just opens a local file that I created from snippets of the user-guide instead. Thanks! Taowa

sloum commented

2021-04-27 01:07:52 +00:00

Hi Taowa,
Thanks for writing in (both to debian and myself). I 100% agree that this change is very much in-line with the goals of the project and should have been something I thought about earlier. The solution you provided is simple and should work well. Given that the net based documentation is hosted from my home on an rpi0 a switch to more reliable access is also a plus.

I took a look at the link. I'm not too familiar with debian's processes or how packaging works, but the change looks right. I did not see a change to the makefile. I assume that would be because the debian package goes about the build another way? If that is correct then I would likely just need to update the makefile to install the new file to the /usr/local/share/ space and get the new file under version control on my end.

There is something in the file that is not currently accurate: the part about client certificates. They were removed as a feature a few versions ago. Keeping up with best practices turned out to be a bigger load than I wanted to follow for a feature so rarely used. Since you sai dyou adapted the text from the website, that means I likely need to go update it there to remove that text (which I will try to do tonight).

I have another feature I am wanting to merge into a release soon, so I will likely combine these changes as a part of that release. Thanks again for your work on this!

Hi Taowa, Thanks for writing in (both to debian and myself). I 100% agree that this change is very much in-line with the goals of the project and should have been something I thought about earlier. The solution you provided is simple and should work well. Given that the net based documentation is hosted from my home on an rpi0 a switch to more reliable access is also a plus. I took a look at the link. I'm not too familiar with debian's processes or how packaging works, but the change looks right. I did not see a change to the makefile. I assume that would be because the debian package goes about the build another way? If that is correct then I would likely just need to update the makefile to install the new file to the `/usr/local/share/` space and get the new file under version control on my end. There is something in the file that is not currently accurate: the part about client certificates. They were removed as a feature a few versions ago. Keeping up with best practices turned out to be a bigger load than I wanted to follow for a feature so rarely used. Since you sai dyou adapted the text from the website, that means I likely need to go update it there to remove that text (which I will try to do tonight). I have another feature I am wanting to merge into a release soon, so I will likely combine these changes as a part of that release. Thanks again for your work on this!

taowa commented

2021-04-27 13:46:24 +00:00

Hi,

So debian packaging is a bit odd sometimes, but what I'm doing is using the debian/install mechanism to tell it to copy an arbitary file to an arbitrary place on disk. In the next release I can suggest to the maintainer that they copy the updated manual verbatim so as to not confuse people re: client certs.

As for where to install it, /usr/share/doc is the right place for system installed documentation in debian, but that obviously doesn't carry to a user that's installing it themselves. I'm personally of the opinion that you should put it anywhere reasonable (/usr/local/share sounds perfectly reasonable to me), and that it's up to a package maintainer to sort it out themselves, but that's easy to say given that I don't maintain the package ;). I've linked the maintainer to this issue, though, and I figure that if they have anything to say they'll do so!

Thanks for your prompt reply and for all your work to create bombadillo!

Taowa

Hi, So debian packaging is a bit odd sometimes, but what I'm doing is using the debian/install mechanism to tell it to copy an arbitary file to an arbitrary place on disk. In the next release I can suggest to the maintainer that they copy the updated manual verbatim so as to not confuse people re: client certs. As for where to install it, /usr/share/doc is the right place for system installed documentation in debian, but that obviously doesn't carry to a user that's installing it themselves. I'm personally of the opinion that you should put it anywhere reasonable (/usr/local/share sounds perfectly reasonable to me), and that it's up to a package maintainer to sort it out themselves, but that's easy to say given that I don't maintain the package ;). I've linked the maintainer to this issue, though, and I figure that if they have anything to say they'll do so! Thanks for your prompt reply and for all your work to create bombadillo! Taowa

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