On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 22:25 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Tromey and I are working on packaging bbdb for Emacs (see BZ > 226800). However, there is a circular BuildRequires. In order that the > Emacs mailreader VM (packaged as emacs-vm) and bbdb integrate > properly, we need to have a BuildRequires: emacs-vm-el in the > emacs-bbdb package, and we need to have a BuildRequires: emacs-bbdb-el > in the emacs-vm package. In other words, both packages require the > elisp source of the other to be present at build time. > > Is there an established way of solving this chicken and egg situation? Would staging work? Build both, then build bbdb with the e-v-e BR, then rebuild e-v-e with the bbdb BR. Eventual problem for new arch bootstrap, but that's not an actively solved problem anyway. - ajax -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
