Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 06/19] Revert to using perl.req and .prov

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 07:46 -0500, Jason Corley wrote: Without any pointers to what some issues references how is anyone supposed to provide useful commentary on this and other patches? Reverting instead of fixing seems an odd choice. If I remember correctly perldeps was only turned on briefly

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 3/19] Enable PREREQ

2007-02-09 Thread Jason Corley
Not really, in JPackage we've phased out PreReq in favor of Requires(pre) (though we most certainly have not finished that for all packages). So can Requires(pre) only exist if a %pre scriptlet exists? Otherwise I don't see the need for yet another namespace that's been marked as remove for

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 06/19] Revert to using perl.req and .prov

2007-02-09 Thread James Olin Oden
On 2/9/07, James Olin Oden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As I said this is meant as a merge of mostly functional changes, and I want to look at the underlying methodologies individually, as such major reworking getOutputFrom was beyond the scope of this patchset. My prefered approach to

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 06/19] Revert to using perl.req and .prov

2007-02-09 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On piÄ…tek, 9 lutego 2007, James Olin Oden wrote: Unfortunately, I do build the world type builds, so I probably was not seeing the sort problems others were. If anyone did have a build system that was doing those sort of builds, I would be more than happy to add fixes to this script. This

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 3/19] Enable PREREQ

2007-02-09 Thread James Olin Oden
On 2/9/07, Michael Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:11:48AM -0500, Peter Bowen wrote: PreReq is a hint that can be used to get better package ordering when you are left with little else. For example: Package A requires B and C Package B requires A Package C

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 06/19] Revert to using perl.req and .prov

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 08:43 -0500, James Olin Oden wrote: snip As I said this is meant as a merge of mostly functional changes, and I want to look at the underlying methodologies individually, as such major reworking getOutputFrom was beyond the scope of this patchset. My prefered

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 3/19] Enable PREREQ

2007-02-09 Thread Stanislav Brabec
James Olin wrote: On 2/9/07, Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately though, I just realized I might be misled, because there is no way that I know to deal with autogenerated deps in this way. You are true, but at least partially it is possible. Yes, it is a overkill,

Re: [Rpm-maint] Add HOST_CFLAGS to %configure?

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:23 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: So I guess, that %configure should set HOST_CFLAGS and HOST_CXXFLAGS, too. It can be defined to the same values as CFLAGS resp. CXXFLAGS, or better, rpm should discriminate between build and target optflags. For compatibility,

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 3/19] Enable PREREQ

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:51 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: And finally, why %preuntrans and %postuntrans don't exist at all? There is no such thing as an untransaction, we don't do different types of transaction, merely a transaction that contains different operations on packages. Imagine a

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Patch 3/19] Enable PREREQ

2007-02-09 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Paul Nasrat wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:51 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: And finally, why %preuntrans and %postuntrans don't exist at all? There is no such thing as an untransaction, we don't do different types of transaction, merely a transaction that contains different operations