On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 07:47:35AM +0000, Baeuerle, Florian wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2018, 16:43 +0200 schrieb Roland Hieber: > > Hmmm, we had a similar patch in August that added libfaketime as a > > runtime dependency to PTXdist in order to detect changes to packages' > > patch series: > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/ptxdist@pengutronix.de/msg13198.html > > > > If we can be sure that faketime is present at run time, we could leave > > it out as a host package (or maybe only need a host-system-faketime > > package instead). > > Is there also a mechanism in ptxdist that allows leaving out system packages > if > the provided tools are already present?
No, and we prefer to keep things working for a long time, so minimizing external dependencies is important. So, host-system-* is for big stuff, like perl/python/... or really stable things like bc. > I did not want to introduce a hard dependency for ptxdist (i. e. host-system- > faketime package), because libfaketime does not seem to be a first class > citizen > in some distributions (community repo in archlinux, epel in centos). I think libfaketime is small enough that building it should not be problematic. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de
