On 2017-09-28 05:04 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
On 2017-09-28 08:42, Digimer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post, apologies if I am off-topic;
>
> I'm trying to build perl-Moose, which depends on perl-Data-Visitor,
> but perl-Data-Visitor depends on perl-Moose;
>
> ====
> [digimer@el7-builder-test1 SPECS]$ rpmbuild -ba perl-Moose.spec
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> perl(Data::Visitor) is needed by
> perl-Moose-2.1005-1.el7.centos.x86_64
> [digimer@el7-builder-test1 SPECS]$ rpmbuild -ba perl-Data-Visitor.spec
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> perl(Moose) >= 0.89 is needed by
> perl-Data-Visitor-0.30-1.el7.centos.noarch
> ====
>
> I am wondering how EPEL repos solved this problem... I grabbed the
> source for both from EPEL. Now, I know I could install perl-Data-Visitor
> from EPEL, then build perl-Moose, install that, then rebuild
> perl-Data-Visitor but I am trying to learn more about package
> management, which is why I am asking here to find out what is the proper
> way to solve this.
A bootstrapping process is used to resolve this issue.
First, the perl-Moose package is built with the %perl_bootstrap rpm
macro set to 1. This could be set in the build system, or by editing the
perl-Moose spec file to set it (which is what's done in EPEL). This
allows perl-Moose to be built without perl-Data-Visitor or any other
module that would result in circular build dependencies.
Once perl-Moose has been built, the %perl_bootstrap rpm macro can be
removed, either from the build system or the spec file as necessary.
It's then possible to build perl-Data-Visitor etc.
Finally, perl-Moose is rebuilt without %perl_bootstrap, which improves
test coverage by pulling in all of the build requirements that were
omitted for the bootstrap build.
You can see the bootstrapping process by looking at the commit history
for the epel7 branch:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Moose/commits/epel7
Paul.
Excellent, thanks!
Can I ask another question? (Ya, I'm new...), is there a doc you
recommend on using macros? I assume you mean the .spec option is to
comment out the requires line for perl-Data-Visitor?
--
Digimer
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