Re: Help on Pre-downloading?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Robert Devi">

> For various reasons, I won't be able to use Garnome until I can download 
> *all* the packages ahead of time before compiling.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like to make two makefiles that can be placed in the 
> garnome-XX.XX.XX/meta/gnome-desktop directory. One makefile would download 
> all the required files without compiling anything. The other makefile would 
> compile all required files without downloading.

The feature already exists. Go to your GARNOME root and run:

  ./paranoid-each checksum

Then copy the tarballs out of the build tree with:

  find */*/download/* -type f -exec cp -vf "{}" ../ \;

(Change "../" to the directory you want to copy them to.)

- Jeff

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