On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
...snip...
> > > What I'd really like would be a "test mass rebuild" process, where a
> > > prospective package is uploaded and everything that depends on it is
> > > automatically rebuilt (ideally after creating the dependency graph so
> > > each individual package doesn't get rebuilt until its dependencies are
> > > finished building).
> > >
> > > Creating the dependency graph by hand is fairly tedious, but maybe I'm
> > > missing an automated way. The point of creating that graph is to avoid
> > > wasting time and power doing and redoing builds that will fail until
> > > something else has been built (which is the problem with mock's
> > > --chain command, if I understand correctly).
> > >
> > > Once I have that graph, I use Make to control the process, because it
> > > handles the dependency graph, as well as parallelism, and not
> > > rebuilding things unnecessarily.
> >
> > Yeah, all this ^
> >
> 
> So I've written tools for doing this, and Igor has written tools for
> doing this, but it seems like people think that this is "impossible"
> and so the effort goes nowhere despite several PoCs.
> 
> If we're interested in this again for real this time, I could try to
> dig out my old code for it, but we might be better off just pulling
> out Koschei's code and turning it into something that Koji's
> chain-build command and Mock's --chain option use to sort through
> package sets and build them correctly.

Can you expand on which 'this' you mean? Getting the build
order/dependency graph? Or a tool to use that to rebuild everything and
tell you what failed? or ?

I don't think you can ever be 100% on dependency graph/build order,
because there's sometimes bootstraps or loops in there. :(

Anyhow I would love to be able to locally build a new library and run
'fedpkg does-it-blend foo.src.rpm' and have it tell me exaclty what
other packages that breaks. 

kevin

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