BuildRequires: sparse

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:48:56PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
 > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 18:30 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:25:04PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > >  > I've updated extras^H^H^H^H^H^HFedora devel sparse to 0.3 and built it in
 > >  > Koji.  I have no clue if magic is required to get it into the tag used for
 > >  > new builds' dependencies.  The following ought to be adequate to tweak the
 > >  > kernel spec to use it rather than build it (assuming the old spec crap
 > >  > wants to stick around conditionally for FC-6 copies).
 > > 
 > > heh, I had this on my todo, but you moved quicker than I did :)
 > > given we're not moving FC-6 cvs over to the new repo, and that they
 > > already use disjunct spec files, we may as well make it unconditional.
 > > 
 > > I don't think there's a great deal of point sparse'ing FC-6,
 > > (or even F7 once its out). Having it just a devel thing to
 > > check the latest tree seems to be more useful than checking the
 > > latest -stable release. comments?
 > Don't we want to make sure than when we push updates to FC-6 that the
 > sparse error logs aren't getting worse (relative to an earlier FC-6
 > kernel)?  (or have I misunderstood the workflow here?)

Well, if we had infrastructure other than 'eyeballs & diff' to look over
then maybe, but until then, I don't think it really adds anything
other than slightly increasing buildtime.

	Dave

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