From 093839e13dc784a8a38441eb7593bef10164e8c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ashley Penney <apenney@edx.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:39:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] flesh out comment.

---
 jenkins/test.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jenkins/test.sh b/jenkins/test.sh
index 67651ccf09..e960313d76 100755
--- a/jenkins/test.sh
+++ b/jenkins/test.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8
 
 GIT_BRANCH=${GIT_BRANCH/HEAD/master}
 
-# Temporary workaround for pip/numpy bug.
+# Temporary workaround for pip/numpy bug. (Jenkin's is unable to pip install numpy successfully, scipy fails to install afterwards.
+# We tried pip 1.1, 1.2, all sorts of varieties but it's apparently a pip bug of some kind.
 wget -O /tmp/numpy.tar.gz http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/numpy/numpy-1.6.2.tar.gz#md5=95ed6c9dcc94af1fc1642ea2a33c1bba
 tar -zxvf /tmp/numpy.tar.gz -C /tmp/
 python /tmp/numpy-1.6.2/setup.py install