STOP messing with nfs-utls... PLEASE!!!

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Wed Nov 4 05:59:46 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 16:26 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 11/03/2015 04:08 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > commit 7765dd87e174beaa44a16a89530d4b956d9abdba
> > Author: Kalev Lember <klember at redhat.com>
> > Date:   Sun Nov 1 16:48:00 2015 +0100
> > 
> >      Disable bootstrap
> > 
> > commit 6ea94b72ac9dfdb6c6d93f8bf975c23c578b9ba0
> > Author: Kalev Lember <klember at redhat.com>
> > Date:   Sun Nov 1 16:42:33 2015 +0100
> > 
> >      Enable bootstrap
> > 
> > Maybe some one can explain to me what
> > was being tried... that didn't work?
> 
> Why do you think it didn't work? These two commits are what made it
> possible to rebuild fedfs-utils.
> 
> If you look two lines down below, this commit has a long commit
> message
> (which you've cut out in the email) explaining what bootstrap does.
> 
> Just to reiterate: your packages had a cyclic dependency, nfs-utils <
> ->
> fedfs-utils <-> nfs-utils. Both of them depend on libtirpc. In koji,
> it
> is only possible to rebuild one package at a time; to be able to do
> that
> you need to first break the cyclic chain so that the other package
> can
> be installed in the build root.

Truth be told that the circular dependency was my fault.

There may have been some sense to it way back when we wanted to ensure
that the nfs-utils package had nfs junction support but it should have
been removed not too long after.

But the removal didn't happen, apologies to everyone for that.

Ian


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