On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 18:36 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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, To be fair -smock tries - which is good. I wished it tried in python but that's just a nitpick :). The reality is - if we want to take a giant pile of srpms in an arbitrary order and build all of them in the right order - we're going to need to get a great deal more rigorous about what we put into specfiles. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel