BuildRootOverrides request: devhelp (for vala-0.1.5)

[Christopher Aillon]

On 12/04/2007 04:34 PM, Michel Salim wrote:
> On 04/12/2007, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:16:12 -0500
>> "Michel Salim" <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could a CVS admin make devhelp available as a BuildRootOverrides?
>>>
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2007-3962
>>>
>>> Vala has a soft BR on devhelp -- the documentation files don't get
>>> installed if devhelp is not detected at configure time, and everytime
>>> there is a Firefox update, devhelp lags behind by days, so it will be
>>> nice to have it permanently whitelisted.
>>
>> There isn't a method to make a "permanent" whitelist.  Why does your
>> app have to be built against a very specific version of devhelp?
>>
> It does not have to. The problem is that the (rather frequent) Firefox
> security fixes, and that devhelp is not whitelisted, means that at any
> moment in time, it is quite probable that the newer version of Firefox
> is already available in Koji, but the matching version of devhelp is
> not.


Actually, the problem existed because of the override from last time. 
If the override did not exist, you would be able to build against the 
correct version.  (Try again now.)


% koji latest-pkg dist-f8-build devhelp
Build                                     Tag                   Built by
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devhelp-0.16.1-3.fc8                      dist-f8-override      stransky
% koji latest-pkg dist-f8-updates devhelp
Build                                     Tag                   Built by
----------------------------------------  -------------------- 
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devhelp-0.16.1-4.fc8                      dist-f8-updates       caillon