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Re: [Xen-devel] 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:27:00 -0700
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On 20/05/2009 14:12, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Perhaps we should more prominently advertise 'make install-xen
>> install-tools'. This should generally result in no downloads apart from
>> qemu, and that's a special-case dependency since it ties quite closely to
>> xen-unstable -- we can't just use any qemu tree. And of course you can
>> define XEN_EXTFILES_URL so as to make any download attempt fail, and then
>> you can go grab the packages yourself as you see fit and assemble your
>> requirements list. Imagine the noise on the mailing list if xen-unstable
>> didn't try to assemble itself automatically out of the box.
>>   
> 
> What about adding "make fetch-dependencies", and have the default build
> say something like "X is missing.  Type "make fetch-dependencies"."?

I could live with that, yes.

 -- Keir



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