On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Simon Mika wrote:
> Although I have a computer that is a bit slower I have the similiar problem.
> Downloading does not consume much processorpower and athor machine
> resources. But compiling does need a lot. Wy don't use always use 2
> parallell processes, one that downloads, and one that compiles. The
> compiling process would still need to be synced with the downloading, but
> that should not be too hard to implement with some semaphore or similiar
> solution.

A quick 'n dirty hack in the FETCHCOMMAND should suffice. Something along the
lines of (pseudocode):

FETCHCOMMAND="if exists \${DISTDIR}/`basename \${URL}.lck`; then skip; else \
              touch \${DISTDIR}/`basename \${URL}.lck`; \
              /usr/bin/wget ...; \
              rm \${DISTDIR}/`basename \${URL}.lck`; fi"

This of course as a temporary solution ;)

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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