Chained builds

[Michel Salim]

2009/2/24 Robert Marcano <robert at marcanoonline.com>:
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> wrote:
>>
>> Robert Marcano wrote:
>> > Can you help me to understand it?
>>
>> A chain-build of A B ... Z builds A, waits for A to be in the repo, builds
>> B, waits for B to be in the repo, ..., builds Z. You can't issue a
>> chain-build including stuff you already built.
>
> then it is not of much help for this case "rebuild a package against a just
> rebuilt dependency" as the wiki says. It only helps if you are 100% sure all
> builds will run without error

To make an analogy, what you want is the equivalent of 'mkdir -p': my
package require the latest tagged versions of A, B, C, ....; for each,
please build them if they have not already been built, otherwise go
ahead.

That would be useful. Saves the hassle of checking the status of each
component manually, esp. if you do not control some parts of the
chain.

Regards,

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