Hi,
we need a way to provide upstream library sources (i.e. the "contrib"-directory) in an environment without internet access.
In order to make this task reasonably comfortable, I miss three features in the prepare tool:
1. Similar to "make -C ./build ...", "make prepare -C ./build" will download all upstream sources required by the corresponding build.conf file.
2. "make prepare ... --download-script download.sh" won't download anything, but instead creates a script file which can be transferred to a PC connected to the internet. There you can execute the script in order to download the sources. The download directory can then be transferred into the offline environment.
3. "make prepare ... --unpack [/path/to/download_dir]" unpacks the downloaded upstream libraries to the local contrib directory.
What do you think? Is something like this possible? Or do you have any other ideas/suggestions?
Regards Roman