On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:56 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > AFAIK we don't have any magic to solve circular dependencies in any > wondrous way (i.e. that's magically delicious for total rebuilds and all). > I think we've just done kludges to bootstrap the first time. > > e.g., you can do an initial koji build of a hack version of the package > that includes some binaries for bootstrapping. Packaging existing binaries > is verboten in general, but you can do it just for the one build that gets > you the prerequisites into koji to do the proper build with a normal spec. > After the first normal build works and replaces the bootstrap hack build, > you're just in the usual circular position that we're in with gcc, glibc, > et al, that all need the others already installed to build the fresh ones. Done that with EPEL java recently, if you want an example: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/java-1.6.0-openjdk/EL-5/bootstrap-java-1.6.0-openjdk.spec?rev=1.1.2.1&only_with_tag=java-1_6_0-openjdk-1_6_0_0-0_5_b06_el5_bootstrap&view=markup -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
