F11: things to check in a release tree before a release
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 19 22:06:47 UTC 2008
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> said:
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:37 -0500 (EST), Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> â?¢ SONAME-provides conflicts
>>>
>>> explain more about what we check for here?
>>> Is this like multiple things providing libfoo.so() and one of them being a
>>> bogon autodep?
>>
>> Exactly. :)
>
> I'd suggest expanding that to check perl (and other language) module
> provides as well.
>
> For example, for a while MRTG included a private copy of the RRD perl
> modules, and "mrtg" was shorter than "rrdtool-perl", so anything using
> the RRD modules would auto-dep pull in MRTG (which didn't solve the
> dep).
so in general we need to produce lists of all multiple providers of any
single provide. Then they can be verified manually?
-sv
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