On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:42:09 -0400 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 11:27:48 -0700 > stan via users wrote: > > > I think the build system should have > > automatic checks to determine that all dependent packages are being > > rebuilt as part of a package build. > > I have suggested in the past that the repos should have an extra layer > of checks before being published: A virtual machine with as close to > "everything" installed as possible, if it gets package errors doing a > dnf update from the pre-published repos, then mail all the package > maintainers for every package with errors and postpone publishing. > > No one seems to like the idea because it isn't absolutely perfect, > it would only solve 99% of the package dependency problems :-). That would work, but I think it is better to have it as part of the build system rather than the delivery system. And I wonder if they have the hardware to run that for every deliverable. My understanding is that it isn't possible to install all the packages on a single system. I could see having one system with all the desktops, with all their packages and dependencies, games, office, etc., one system with all the development tools, and one system with all the server / cloud packages. It would have to be automated as it's too much to expect a person to run this all the time. Maybe have both, if there are the resources. I infer, from comments on the devel list, that there are resource constraints in infrastructure, so it might be hard to find someone to actually design and build it, and then maintain it, not even considering hardware. Probably lots of other demands on the existing resources, too. Another way to take care of this would be to enhance fedora to have support for multilib. But that is an even bigger project than both of the above combined. And has its own issues; container stale libraries on steroids. Would have to always use the latest available library api for every function, garbage collection for no longer used libraries, frozen library api function call signatures and functionality, gets more and more complex. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
