CLI option to forbid installation from rock source about luarocks HOT 5 CLOSED

It's an interesting use case, but a --no-download flag that applies only to source URLs but not to rocks and rockspecs would be confusing. I just pushed a flag called --only-sources-from, which restricts which URLs can be used. For example:

luarocks build foobar --only-sources-from=luaforge.net

This is plain string matching, so this works:

luarocks build luaposix --only-sources-from=github.com/downloads/rrthomas/

I didn't use patterns to avoid surprises (such as "." having a special meaning).

As a special case (?), this has the same effect as the --no-download flag you suggested:

luarocks build foobar --only-sources-from=""

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:06, Hisham Muhammad
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It's an interesting use case, but a --no-download flag that applies only to source URLs but not to rocks and rockspecs would be confusing.

But maybe it should apply to everything? If we need anything that
is not in the --only-from= repo, fail. Or am I missing something?

I just pushed a flag called --only-sources-from, which restricts which URLs can be used. For example:

   luarocks build foobar --only-sources-from=luaforge.net

This is plain string matching, so this works:

   luarocks build luaposix --only-sources-from=github.com/downloads/rrthomas/

I didn't use patterns to avoid surprises (such as "." having a special meaning).

As a special case (?), this has the same effect as the --no-download flag you suggested:

   luarocks build foobar --only-sources-from=""

Thank you!

Alexander.

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It's an interesting use case, but a --no-download flag that applies only to source URLs but not to rocks
and rockspecs would be confusing.

But maybe it should apply to everything? If we need anything that is not in the --only-from= repo, fail.
Or am I missing something?

As far as I can tell, --only-from already does that for rocks and rockspecs. For example, on an empty tree, run:

luarocks build copas --only-from=http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks-scm

It fails because luasocket is not available in rocks-scm.

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 18:23, Hisham Muhammad
[email protected]
wrote:

It's an interesting use case, but a --no-download flag that applies only to source URLs but not to rocks
and rockspecs would be confusing.
But maybe it should apply to everything? If we need anything that is not in the --only-from= repo, fail.
Or am I missing something?

As far as I can tell, --only-from already does that for rocks and rockspecs (example: on an empty tree, run:

   luarocks build copas --only-from=http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks-scm

It fails because luasocket is not available in rocks-scm.

Makes sense, thanks.

Alexander.

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Closing this since the available functionality seems to be sufficient.

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