[libvirt] [PATCH] build: make autobuild require rpm build deps

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Sep 16 14:38:27 UTC 2013


On 09/16/2013 03:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 05:32:52AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> I spent far too long on a new machine trying to figure out why
>> ./autobuild.sh failed during the rpm build failure (complaining
>> that libvirt_parthelper was supposed to be packaged but was not
>> built), and finally traced it to a missing parted-devel
>> installation.  I don't know why we have --nodeps in place, but
>> removing it would make rpmbuild error out much sooner, and with
>> a much less cryptic failure case.
>>
>> * autobuild.sh: Drop --nodeps from rpmbuild lines.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>
>> I'm okay ditching this patch if someone can explain why the
>> --nodeps line should be there.
> 
> It is basically an artifact/limitation of the way the automated
> builder software works.
> 
> We could make it detect whether it is run under the builder
> env though - if $AUTOBUILD_COUNTER is not set, then use
> --nodeps, otherwise skip it. That'd make it do the right
> thing for developers

I'll spin up a v2 doing just that.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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