On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:02:33PM -0400, Tom Lane 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 ... smock possibly, modulo the shortcomings that Seth Vidal correctly pointed out. It is here: http://git.annexia.org/?p=fedora-mingw.git;a=tree;f=smock;hb=HEAD Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
