rpms/perl-Readonly/devel perl-Readonly.spec,1.2,1.3

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:52:25 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:

> On 10/4/06, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 18:26 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
> >
> > >  %changelog
> > > +* Wed Oct 04 2006 Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> 1.03-6
> > > +- add explict requires on perl(Readonly::XS).  perl(Readonly::XS) is available
> > > +  for all architectures fedora supports, so there's no good reason to not
> > > +  require it.
> >
> > Hm... except maybe that there's now a build dependency loop,
> > perl-ReadOnly-XS BuildRequires perl-ReadOnly.
> 
> Almost...  perl-Readonly requires (not buildrequires)
> perl(Readonly::XS), whereas perl-Readonly-XS requires and
> buildrequires perl(Readonly).  So long as perl-Readonly is built and
> in the repos before perl-Readonly-XS is queued, and perl-Readonly-XS
> is available before someone tries to install perl-Readonly, we're
> good....  right?

Still a loop, or what am I missing? Assume you start from scratch:

1. rpmbuild perl-Readonly  =>  works

2. rpmbuild perl-Readonly-XS  =>  needs BuildRequires perl-Readonly,
which in turn Requires perl-Readonly-XS, which hasn't been built yet
 => *boom*