On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:55 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote: > fre 2010-12-17 klockan 11:22 +0100 skrev Michael Schwendt: > > > +1 to some way of automating koji buildroot overrides (perhaps based > > on FAS group membership such as provenpackagers) in order to remove > > the releng bottleneck. > > Suggestion on how to express this in the packaging process: > BuildRequires with a version requirement pulling in from updates-testing > if the required version can not be satisfied from the stable repository. > > Will need some yum coding in using fallback on updates-testing or other > selected fallback repositories on dep failures. Something I think is > interesting for other activities as well. > > This way the packager need to explicitly request the newer version in > the spec file to have it included in the build root, and builds are also > reproducible and self-contained with no sideband dependency requirements > outside the spec file. >
So you want contingency fall-through deps? ie: BuildRequires: foo = 1.1.1 (but if that's not available foo = 1.0.0)? How is that interesting other than making it possible to replicate the build environment? -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
