On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:17:53PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote: > 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? +1 on the guideline. -- Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx> http://mcpierce.blogspot.com/ Famous last words: "I wonder what happens if we do it this way?"
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