[csw-maintainers] Mirror update notifications

[James Lee]

On 03/02/11, 14:44:46, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote regarding 
Re: [csw-maintainers] Mirror update notifications:

> >> >> There has been historically an issue that we never knew when our
> >> >> released packages hit the mirror[1].  It was a typical scenario when
> >> >> building a chain of dependencies, that after a package has been
> >> >> accepted, we had to keep on manually checking the mirror and searching
> >> >> through the catalog file to find out whether our package is already
> >> >> available to the world - and the buildfarm.
> >> >
> >> > No, just set -I and -L appropriately.
> >
> >> What do you mean?
> >
> > Are you saying you don't recognise -I and -L?  Or how to use them
> > to build with a package that hasn't been installed?

> Oh my. I'm not a compiler/linker.

You've failed the Turing test.

> There are many utilities taking that
> options. And in the context of notification it was not clear. Whence my
> question. Anyway, thanks for the answer which now make more sense.

With the vast majority of packages being compiled C/C++ the context
should be obvious, particularly as I regularly set these to local
values to circumvent the very issue being touted.



James.