On Sun, 2019-06-09 at 17:54 -0700, stan via test wrote: > I had occasion to install many packages from f31 today. The large > majority of them installed successfully, but the packages in the > attached file didn't. There are 411 of them, which is few for as many > packages as there are in Fedora. > > I'm curious why the same mechanism that dnf uses on install on a pc > couldn't be used in the build process. When someone submits a build, > wouldn't it be possible to see if it would break the existing state, > and ask the submitter if they would like to build the dependencies with > their new package? Too complex?
In a nutshell...yes. This is what https://pagure.io/rpmdeplint is for, but it's a very hard problem to actually fully solve, and there are enough problems with false negatives that we've never been in a position to make it a gating check. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
