Re: Question about build dependencies.

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Joey Hess wrote:

> CVSGET=cvs -d":pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/webwml" \
>         co -p webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist
>
> build:
>         # Freshen Mirrors.masterlist file, but allow failure.
>         if $(CVSGET) > Mirrors.masterlist.0 \
>            && [ -s "Mirrors.masterlist.0" ]; then \
>                 mv -f Mirrors.masterlist.0 Mirrors.masterlist > /dev/null 2>&1;
>         fi

And what happens if things never time out?