On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> it looks to me as if these scripts could be useful also for a local
> checked out working directory, at least for some of them which retrieve
> files needed during compilation. We could also perform some other tasks,
> e.g. to avoid the makefile/Makefile trick by Josip under
> /international/l10n ;)
>
> For instance,
> webwml/
> pre_build Call scripts under scripts_prebuild/
> scripts_prebuild/
> 1Maintainer Get ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/Maintainers
> 1lists_cfg Get http://murphy.debian.org/lists.cfg
> 5countries_def Generate english/template/debian/countries.def
> 5l10n Generate english/international/l10n/data/langs
> ...
> download_area/ Directory where downloaded files reside
>
> This is trivial, I will do if you believe it is useful.
Why, exactly? I mean, who cares? I've never needed any of these in my local
CVS trees, YMMV.
> PS: cron/daily_updates/1lists.cfg is not executed since ``filenames
> should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits,
> underscores, and hyphens''.
I'll fix this, thanks.
P.S.: real bugs shouldn't be mentioned in P.S. :)
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