[Mageia-dev] cauldron state, and dependencies handling

Wed Nov 28 20:59:58 CET 2012

2012/11/28, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> Florent Monnier skrev 28.11.2012 20:39:
+>> 2012/11/28, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+>>> On 28 November 2012 15:44, blue_prawn <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org>
+>>> wrote:
+>>>> blue_prawn <blue_prawn> 0.3-5.mga3:
+>>>> + Revision: 322631
+>>>> - no change, only a rebuild
+>>>
+>>> Please tell why you rebuild
+>>> eg: "rebuild for new ocaml" or whatever instead of "no change..."
+>>
+>> malo (other ocaml packager) suggests me to put "rebuild for Beta 1"
+>>
+>> but this is the goal, not the origine,
+>> the reason is because a dependency was rebuild.
+>> in ocaml if a dependency is rebuild, all the dependents and
+>> sub-dependents have to be rebuild.
+>>
+>> So which log message would you prefer:
+>>
+>> - rebuild for Beta 1
+>
+> this one:
+>
+>> - rebuild because dependency rebuilt
+>
+> as it's the real reason.
+>
+> or more like:
+>
+> - rebuild for new ocaml
+>
+> (or wichever package "triggered" the need for rebuild)
+
+
+So it should have been:
+- rebuild for new xmlm
+
+
+I do have a question related to this issue:
+
+Should ocaml libs in Cauldron be maintained usable?
+
+For example if I've rebuild xmlm 3 months ago, there is nothing to
+change in xtmpl, so currently I just wait before Mageia's release to
+rebuild all that needs to be.
+
+That means that during these 3 months, xtmpls didn't worked in Cauldron.
+Is that bad?
+
+=========
+
+In case that's bad, I'm wondering how I should handle this.
+- I can just icrem the mkrel of all ocaml libs.
+(I can write the script to do this in 5 minutes.)
+
+- I can create a dependency graph, so when I rebuilt xmlm 3 months
+ago, I can use the dependcy graph to know the exhaustive list of
+dependents that also need to be rebuild.
+(I can write the script to do this in maybe 1 evening)
+
+-- 
+Cheers
+