Once upon a time Saturday 11 February 2006 10:31 am, Anthony Green wrote: > So, would it be OK to submit binary -bootstrap SRPMS to FE for the > purposes of bootstrapping these loopy packages? This has the advantage > that is doesn't require any special intervention on the part of the FE > build infrastructure maintainers. have a look at fpcits initial build contained a bianry copy of the compiler as fpc is written in pascal and needed a pascal compiler to build. its first update then required itself to build. you could possibly do something similar if indeed there is a circular dependancy. if that is indeed the case thats a bad design by upstream -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE <dennis AT ausil DOT us> http://www.ausil.us Proud Australian
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