BuildSystem questions

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 19:01:21 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 19:29 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> > If you have 2 packages (say A and B) and queue up first A and then B,
> > can you be sure that A will be finished and be available by the time B
> > is building? This doesn't seem to be the case currently, or there is a
> > window there when it's not true. So for packages with other packages
> > as dependencies should we wait until they have gone to the 'needsign'
> > area? Or longer? before building the package that depends on them?
> 
> My experience based on libotr/gaim-otr dependancies, is that you need
> to wait until they have been fully released before you can build.
> "needsign" is not enough. 

needsign is supposed to be enough and was before the recent plague
upgrade... should be fixed up now-ish.

Jeremy




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