hg-2.3 build fails with python-docutils ~0.10 snapshot rev 7490
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Mon Aug 20 16:41:51 CDT 2012
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:17 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> OK, but I don't think we have a mechanism like this for Fedora. I do
> have to work within the constraints of the environment.
Am I wrong in thinking that Fedora uses RPMs still?
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 11:39 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Versioned dependencies?
>
> Yes. Debian calls this 'build-depends', RPM apparently calls
> it
> "BuildRequires". You can see Mercurial's build dependencies on
> Debian
> here:
>
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mercurial/mercurial_2.2.2-1.dsc
>
> > If I understand correctly what you're asking for, I think
> that would
> > be a non-starter. We have to work with whatever version the
> > distribution provides. There are not options to parallel
> install
> > multiple versions.
>
>
> So? Even if this were a run-time conflict rather than a build
> time
> conflict, what matters is that it's a genuine conflict and any
> non-broken packaging system already must deal with such
> problems. In
> particular, a package manager should disallow you from
> installing
> packages X and Y if they depend on incompatible versions of
> libZ. In an
> ecosystem with thousands of packages, there will unavoidably
> always be
> packages in the pool that have mutually conflicting
> dependencies.
>
> Here, we're actually only concerned with build, so a smart
> autobuilder
> can install and uninstall dependencies as needed. Debian's
> autobuilders
> run in a chroot where they're isolated from such conflicts and
> various
> other issues.
>
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