Re: newbie pkg question

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

Quoting Gunther Nikl (04-May-01 10:37:41):

> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:

>> "make" defaults to "make build", which makes all targets before
>> "build" (fetch, checksum, ...). This is clearly said in
>> packages.txt.

>  This is correct, but your initial "make fetch-list" is according to
>  Ignatios different. If you do "make", then the build process
>  fetches only the sources for this particular package you are trying
>  to build. Then it realizes there is a dependencies and builds the
>  dependency. Afterwards the build process resumes the original
>  pacjage. That means the normal build fetches the dependencies on
>  demand and not all at once.

Agreed!

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