On 2-Jan-2003, Jamey Hicks wrote:
>One of the things that the autobuilder needs is a good dependence
>manager/walker.
The autobuilder has dependency checking. See, for example, the dependency
graph for the "toolchain" distribution:
http://autobuild.handhelds.org/dep.php?queue=toolchain-arm3-unstable
>The latest RPM library includes such a thing.
Code reuse is always nice, but dependency graph walking is a pretty small
and simple part of the autobuild Perl script, so I wonder if there's much
benefit from replacing it with the RPM library's mechanism.
>Since Linux Standards Base mandates RPM support, moving to RPM from .deb
>format is probably something we'll have to do anyway.
Yep. All package-type-specific autobuilder code is in a separate module,
Pkg.pm, which currently supports Debian packages and GNU-style tarballs.
Adding RPM support should be quite straightforward.
Nick
Received on Fri Jan 03 16:31:03 2003
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