[Mageia-dev] cauldron state, and dependencies handling

Florent Monnier monnier.florent at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 21:29:51 CET 2012


>> In case that's bad, I'm wondering how I should handle this.
>> - I can just icrem the mkrel of all ocaml libs.
>> (I can write the script to do this in 5 minutes.)
>>
>
> That's normally what happends when deps are updated (for example several
> libs has this effect)
>
> The dependent packages should be rebuilt as soon as possible to keep
> the breakage minimal. It will then be easier for other needing to
> use / rely on the packages....

[...]

>> - I can create a dependency graph, so when I rebuilt xmlm 3 months
>> ago, I can use the dependcy graph to know the exhaustive list of
>> dependents that also need to be rebuild.
>> (I can write the script to do this in maybe 1 evening)


No, I mean there are 2 possible ways to do what you want me to do.

1) I could just send ALL the ocaml libs, when only some needs to be sent.
2) I could also only send those that need to

1) is not hard to do
2) is more difficult


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