hello,
On 11/03/2015 10:26 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
On 11/03/2015 04:08 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> commit 7765dd87e174beaa44a16a89530d4b956d9abdba
> Author: Kalev Lember <klember(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Sun Nov 1 16:48:00 2015 +0100
>
> Disable bootstrap
>
> commit 6ea94b72ac9dfdb6c6d93f8bf975c23c578b9ba0
> Author: Kalev Lember <klember(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Sun Nov 1 16:42:33 2015 +0100
>
> Enable bootstrap
>
> Maybe some one can explain to me what
> was being tried... that didn't work?
Why do you think it didn't work? These two commits are what made it
possible to rebuild fedfs-utils.
Well... your build didn't work either...
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=695411
This is why I said it didn't work.
If you look two lines down below, this commit has a long commit message
(which you've cut out in the email) explaining what bootstrap does.
Just to reiterate: your packages had a cyclic dependency, nfs-utils <->
fedfs-utils <-> nfs-utils. Both of them depend on libtirpc. In koji, it
is only possible to rebuild one package at a time; to be able to do that
you need to first break the cyclic chain so that the other package can
be installed in the build root.
Is this documented somewhere? Plus why not just
take off
nfs-utils dependency on fedfs-utils and just let fedfs-utils
depend on nfs-utils?
The process of doing so is called bootstrapping. First you build a
package with reduced functionality, then build other package against the
first one, and then disable bootstrap in the first package.
Are there any other
examples of this? Ii just looked
like a real hack to me...
Bootstrapping is always followed by disabling it; it's wrong to leave
bootstrap enabled for a long period. That's why you see "Enable
bootstrap" (and a successful koji rebuild), followed by "Disable
bootstrap".
But last koji build was not successful. I see no need for any
of this bootstrap code whatsoever...
I am on git push away of reverting all that code away unless
someone tell me why this is a good thing and can not be done by
just removing a dependency.
I also noted that I poked at this in the other thread where you asked
for help. Thanks for yelling, instead of saying "thanks".
Its called having respect for maintainers... You just don't start
hacking on people's packages just because you think or
there is something wrong (and expect no push back)
You give us time (short if necessary) to address the problem through
that new flanged thing called bugzilla or even IRC... ;-)
Please allow us to do our jobs!
steved.