2014-08-28 14:05 GMT+02:00 Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:55:14 +0200 > Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 08/27/2014 08:17 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: >> > How do you build a package in koji when the package requires itself >> > to be available? >> >> I seen a lot of packages where it was needed for %check section. >> If this is the situation (you have to investigate that). Just comment >> out that BR and %check section. Build it. Then uncomment and build >> again. Of course if you can put there %boostrap macro, you will easy >> work for others. > > And you might try building an older version that didn't have yet the > dependency first, then build the latest. You can also talk to the > maintainers, because they should know how to resolve the cyclic > dependency properly So, a lot of options. Wouldn't it be better if we had a packaging guideline forcing the spec to either have something like a %bootstrap macro, or at least contain a comment _documenting_ how to bootstrap the package? - Thomas -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
