compiling with already dowloaded sources

[Martijn Brouwer <eambrouwer freeler nl>]

Hi, 
I am not able to install garnome 0.9.6, and I cannont find what I am 
doing wrong. I downloaded the gnome2 sources from 020501 in 
/home/downloads/gnome2/020501/ garnome 0.9.6 in 
/home/downloads/gnome2/garnome-0.9.6 and changed the following lines in 
gar.conf.mk. 

FILE_SITES = file:///home/downloads/gnome2/020501/ 
or 
FILE_SITES = file://localhost/home/downloads/gnome2/020501/

prefix ?= /opt/gnome2 

when I run make install from meta/gnome-desktop garnome starts 
downloading the sources from gnome.org. When I try garnome 0.9.7 with 
the same changes to gar.conf.mk, garnome complains about failing 
checksums. Is this indicating that at least garnome 0.9.7 is looking in 
the correct local dir.
By the way: is python 2.2 really neccesary, or is 2.1 sufficient.

How to get garnome compiling with already downloaded sources. 

Bye, 

Martijn