Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:53:28PM +0200, Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote:
> >> Or invent a nice solution that does auto-downloads, and switch a few
> >> other huge external libs to that (like icu). ;)
> 
> That would be a problem for some builders unless you don't download it
> when the file is there...
>
That should go without saying; otherwise every rebuild would
re-download the file, probably.

> For example, for Debian requiring any form of net access on a build
> is a no-go (and for some libs we have to use the internal versions, 
> and be it sometime, in emergency)
> 
> And please also think on people bulding somewhere without net access..
> 
I think this is basically the same requirement Hamburg RelEng would
have, so maybe some envvar like OOO_PREREQ_CACHEDIR would do?

Cheers,

-- Thorsten

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