Circular dependencies

[Warren Togami]

Anthony Green wrote:
> I've been forking a number of JPackage RPMS so they will build and run
> on our Free Software java stack.  Unfortunately, these packages have
> circular dependencies.  
> 
> Is there any way to inject binary RPMs into the FE build system in order
> to bootstrap the loopy packages?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> AG
> 
> 

In the past FE has used a bootstrap repository with a special 
binary-only ghc in order to build ghc in Extras from sources.  I suppose 
we could do something like this again, however we should formalize some 
official bootstrap process for cases like this within FESCO.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com