Re: Fetching packages

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="James E. LaBarre">

> In Garnome 0.16.2, I have been trying to find how I would pre-fetch the
> packages needed for the compile, without having to run the compile at the
> same time.  I tried the obvious ones (ones I could see in the makefiles)
> of fetch, pre-fetch, etc.  The most that happened was that "make fetch"
> created an empty "download" directory under meta/gnome-desktop.

make fetch in meta/gnome-desktop will only make fetch for that garball,
so... You need to make fetch in the root build directory.

However, I strongly recommend that you 'make paranoid-checksum', as this
will stop and tell you if the files are incorrectly downloaded.

- Jeff

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