Fedora Extras 4 Package Build Report

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Nov 2 21:33:57 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:02 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:56 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> > Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > 
> > >On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:57 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>When these releases are done, doesn't that mean the build system has the 
> > >>released packages available for future builds?
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >Unless I'm mistaken, they should actually be available even earlier,
> > >right after they've been built.  But see below.
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

Right, once the builders' mock configs get updated to point to the new
location, dependencies will be available to subsequent packages when the
dep has built and been placed in the 'needsign' state.  I'm going to try
to get the builders' mock configs updated tomorrow or Friday to fix
this.

Dan





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