Circular BuildRequires in F8 ??

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Mon Dec 17 02:12:59 UTC 2007


I suppose this might be better suited for another list, I'm not sure.

I've noticed two instances now of circular BuildRequires in Fedora 8.

First - java-1.7.0-icedtea

It BuildRequires java-1.7.0-icedtea-devel but java-1.7.0-icedtea-devel
is a package the spec file builds. This is broken.

I am willing to forgive that one, along the same lines that you need a c
compiler to compile gcc.

The second though - cmake and xmlrpc-c

xmlrpc-c BuildRequires cmake
cmake BuildRequires xmlrpc-c-devel

This is definitely broken.

Is Fedora now accepting circular BuildRequires in it's package
repository?




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