Circular dependencies in texlive?

[Alain Portal]

Le jeudi 04 juillet 2013 19:44:04, John Reiser a écrit :
> > I tried to build texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm for EPEL, the build failed with the following error:
> > 
> > error: Failed build dependencies:
> >         harfbuzz-devel is needed by texlive-3:2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.el6.x86_64
> >         graphite2-devel is needed by texlive-3:2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.el6.x86_64
> 
> Notice that you are mixing .fc19 and .el6.  This allows another place for things to go wrong.

There is no mix, I just try to build the package for el6 with the f19 srpm.

> > So, building texlive-2013 requires graphite2-devel, and building graphite2-devel requires texlive2013.
> 
> Yes, but each dependency can be satisfied by installing a binary .rpm which is available.

The packages are available for f19, not for el6.

> Building texlive-2013 from source cannot proceed unless the binary of graphite2-devel
> has been installed before the build starts.  So "yum install graphite2-devel".

No graphite2-devel package in el6.
Of course, f19 packages can't be installed on el6.

> Today this
> is not a circular dependency, although it may be impossible to rebuild the world
> from source only, without using some previous [or current] binary version of graphite2-devel.
> Once upon a time the dependencies were not as strict, or there was a bootstrapping
> stage that is not recorded in the .spec, or there was manual "cheating", etc.

This is clearly a circular dependency.
I'm curious to know how koji do the job...

> > Does somebody succeed to open texlive.spec?
> > When trying to browse this file, kwrite suddenly stops.
> 
> I have no trouble.  Check your download, disk space, etc.  Here are my md5sum:
> 53c5ebfad7693a476417aa407d3688c8  texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm

78d97624782343909c2e757b0a3ff65d  texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm

> d7fe656e5ec3727cc26dbcc216e3553f  rpmbuild/SPECS/texlive.spec

d7fe656e5ec3727cc26dbcc216e3553f  texlive.spec

> texlinve.spec has 329,568 lines, 14,562,823 bytes.

14,562,823        texlive.spec

> The texlive-2013 .fc19.src.rpm has 1,672,612,100 bytes.

1,672,610,996      texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm