Plague dependency question

[Oliver Falk]

On 03/29/2007 10:50 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:18:14 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> 
>> I think, the bsys should raise up a list of deps that might need a 
>> rebuild; A webpage with checkboxes and a go button. :-) Eventuall a 
>> notification to the maintainer if build fails, and/or a bug#, whatever. 
>> But if you want autorebuilds in such a way, the system needs to know how 
>> to increase the release number and add a cl entry to the spec; Needs cvs 
>> commit rights and so on... Maybe nothing anyone wants to be automated... 
>> However, I'm not goin' to code this :-P
> 
> And once it's made too easy to rebuild package sets like this, we will see
> many needless rebuilds in Fedora.
> 
> "Automatic rebuilds" in my opinion implies that there is a way to check
> automatically whether a rebuild is necessary. For instance, if a soname
> has changed and breaks the ABI. But the build system cannot know whether
> this is expected. 3rd party repositories which depend on our packages
> won't like such breakage and our attempts to work around it with
> automatic mass-rebuilds.

That's why I said, that the buildsystem should only do it 
semi-automatic; Only with human-intervention. :-)

-of