Fedora Extras 4 Package Build Report

[Quentin Spencer]

seth vidal wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:56 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>Ville Skyttä wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:57 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>>>When these releases are done, doesn't that mean the build system has the 
>>>>released packages available for future builds?
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>>>Unless I'm mistaken, they should actually be available even earlier,
>>>right after they've been built.  But see below.
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>>I thought so, too, but last week I had a case where I submitted two 
>>builds where the second depended on the first, and the second failed 
>>because the version of the first package that mock installed was an old 
>>one rather than the one that had just completed. Anyway, I requested a 
>>new build of octave-forge and it seems to be working now, so I must have 
>>by chance hit the window where the current libraries weren't available 
>>the first time I built it.
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>No, Last week there was another issue. The mock configs on the
>buildboxes had not been updated to point to the needsign repos for the
>new targets since the plague 0.4.X update.
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OK, thanks for the clarification. I had started thinking I had to wait 
for a package to be released before building dependent packages, which 
led to some dependency breakages yesterday in some packages I maintain.

-Quentin