On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On 2011-10-05, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> For example, cairo BuildRequires: librsvg2-devel, and librsvg2 >>> BuildRequires: cairo-devel, so there is no order in which I can rebuild >>> them. How the heck did we get into such a situation, and what should >>> I do about it? Neither specfile appears to have any provision for >>> bootstrapping. > >> We had similar problem when upgrading Perl to 5.14. > >> First, we choosed dependecy-ordered builds which stopped after >> rebuilding about one thousand packages. Then we hit circular >> dependencies blocking remaining eight hunderds packages. > > What exactly did you do for "dependency-ordered builds"? What I could > really use right now is a tool that would sort the package list into > dependency order for me, and point to where there are circularities. > I'd like to think that wheel has been invented already ... > > regards, tom lane The nearest I can think of is smock.pl, which has a '--dryrun' option providing the dependency order information. There's some information about it here: http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/R-repo/setup_for_build Adam -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
