Re: CG guide to building GUB (issue 6199045)

[graham]

On 2012/05/06 13:06:09, PhilEHolmes wrote:
> The filesystem I created was 64 Gigs, and it shows 36.8 free - so 30
gigs is the
> bare minimum.  My GUB directory is about 12 Gigs, and my total file
size is
> around 17 Gigs,

ah, that makes sense.  I was only looking at the directory, but of
course the most important thing somebody needs to know is how large to
make the partition.

> > https://github.com/gperciva/gub

> I assume git://github.com/gperciva/gub is the correct syntax for the
git clone?

Yes, that's what I see on the github page.  I haven't tested it myself,
but that looks like the right form... no wait.  I see this:
git://github.com/gperciva/gub.git
(with an extra .git at the end)


> > According to my notes from 2012 Feb 17, manual attention is only
needed for
> >   bin/gub tools::netpbm
> >   bin/gub tools::rsync
> > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2184

> It did fail for me consistently, a number of times.

Before or after Feb 17?

> However, I'm only really
> giving it as an example of what to do if any package fails to
download.

My point is that you shouldn't need to poke around inside the downloads/
directory manually, and AFAIK the above commands are the only ones that
you need to do.  I'm sure that I completely wiped my target/ and
download/ directories and rebuilt from scratch, so in Feb it was
possible to avoid poking around manually.  Something may have changed
before or after then, of course.

Hopefully James will run these instructions later this afternoon and
then he can tell us if there's any problems or not.

- Graham

http://codereview.appspot.com/6199045/