On 10/08/2016 10:39, Fam Zheng wrote: > Then the script needs to be updated to work with different package management > systems (rpm and deb). For now they only call standard Linux commands. That's > least of the problem, though. > > The more tricky question is how the script can tell which packages are > relevant > (or, used). I assume the number of packages in a docker image is quite limited > (fedora has 396, ubuntu 574), but dumping the whole list is still noisy > nevertheless. Also, depending on the configure option, a submodule can be used > instead, or a local built library. Not that we have a lot of these now, but > it's a factor of complication. > > On the other hand, configure knows when to use pkg-config --modversion, or git > describe, or something else, depending on how and where it discovers the > compiler and -devel libs etc..
Can you include a description of how to reproduce with "make docker-test-FOO@BAR DEBUG=1"? Thanks, Paolo