[csw-maintainers] Mirror update notifications

[Peter FELECAN]

James Lee <james at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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.

Still I eat apples.

>> 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.

Not being a divine I cannot see that.
-- 
Peter