Re: Question about build dependencies.

2001-12-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:43:31PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > I think the policy have to be clearified on this matter. Maybe add a new > paragraph that says something like (at the bottom of chapter 2.4.2. > > "Dependencies other than binary packages can not be assumed, including > network conne

Re: Question about build dependencies.

2001-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:20:32PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hmm I took the idéa from the previous java-common maintainer so that is > why I thought it was valid... And I have got quite a lot of suggestions > in bug-reports (do not remember if it is from other maintainers) so maybe > such a che

Re: Question about build dependencies.

2001-12-18 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Sean! You wrote: > lync could theoretically be used to dump an html file as plain text during the > build. Silly, but possible. Not silly at all. sgmltools for example depends on w3m or lynx to create text version of sgml documents. -- Kind regards, +--

Re: Question about build dependencies.

2001-12-18 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:19:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > CVSGET=cvs -d":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/webwml" \ > co -p webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist > > build: > # Freshen Mirrors.masterlist file, but allow failure. > if $(CVSGET) > Mirrors.masterlist.0 \ >