Re: 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 20/05/2009 07:57, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> Much better would be to just list what the dependencies are in the
>>> README, as well as where to get them.  If the build finds them missing,
>>> then it should just say so and stop.
>>>       
>> I would actually agree.  Having a part of the build system which
>> brings all the pieces together automatically for you would be good,
>> but it would be sensible for xen-unstable.hg to be less enthusiastic
>> about downloading stuff.
>>     
>
> 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"."?

    J