On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 03:53:09PM -0600, Jerry James wrote: > The ELN package builds for the recent OCaml 4.13 update have mostly > been failing, over and over. I finally took a look at some today; > they're going to keep failing until a human intervenes. Rebuilding > against Rawhide packages was supposed to fix this issue, but it > doesn't fix the problem we're having this time: package builds that > succeeded when they should have failed. I'm not sure I follow exactly what the problem is. > The problem is that some packages low in the OCaml dependency tree > were built successfully, but against packages that hadn't been rebuilt > yet. The builds succeeded, so now those builds are sitting in the ELN > repository, preventing the corresponding Rawhide builds from being > used, but they have unresolvable dependencies. So say there's this (real) dependency chain: ocaml -> ocaml-labltk -> ocaml-findlib -> ocaml-dune We set off building (eg) ocaml-findlib.ELN before ocaml-labtk.ELN. However it's being built against the Rawhide version of ocaml-labtk, so it should both build and the dependencies of it should be OK. Unless of course we're hitting the unstable ocamlx(Dynlink) problem again? > If building the packages in the same order they were built for Rawhide > is infeasible, then we need a backtracking algorithm that detects > build failures due to uninstallable packages and rebuilds those. > Right now, at the very least, ocaml-dune needs such a rebuild. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
