Questions about build system

[Rex Dieter]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> I'm maintaining a number of packages that are part of a long dependency
> chain  (gcdmaster -> libgnomeuimm -> gtkmm -> glibmm -> libsigc++). Does
> that mean that, in order to guarantee that each one of these is build
> against the newly rebuilt versions, I have to queue them up in the build
> system, say, libsigc++ on monday, glibmm on tuesday, ..., and gcdmaster
> on friday :-) ?

Pkgs that finish building are available to the buildsystem immediately.
 So, you only need wait until libsigc++ finishes building before
queueing glibmm, etc...

> I know that mock doesn't handle this like mach does: freshly built
> packages in /var/lib/x/result are not automatically used in the prep
> phase of the next mock build, and that's currently my biggest gripe
> against mock (with otherwise works great). So since plague uses mock,
> does this also apply to our build system ?

mock itself doesn't support that, but the buildsystem does... (-:

-- Rex