Hi all,
During discussions with ROSA and OpenMandriva maintainers, we have found
out that update of packages to newer versions sometimes takes much
longer than it could due to rpmbuild specifics (I mean not 'rpm -iU',
but the process of adopting spec file for a newer upstream version). The
particular claiming is about rpmbuild exiting immidiately when a
critical error concerning file lists is detected ("file not found",
"installed but unpackaged file found", and some other issues like "file
listed twice" which terminate the build in ROSA/MDV). However, the
rpmbuild could continue the work to detect more issues with files,
otherwise maintainers are able to detect and fix only one error per
build iteration. And in case of large packages with large changes, this
leads to a need to perform a lot of build iterations to eliminate all
issues, though the build itself is proved to be successful and just
takes the time.
The particular improvement suggestions are like the following:
1) If a package has several subpackages, then check file lists in every
subpackage
2) Perform all checks at once, do not return RPMRC_FAIL immediately if
one of them failed
Here is a rough patch implementing this behavior which is currently used
in OpenMandriva and available for ROSA, as well:
https://abf.rosalinux.ru/openmandriva/rpm/raw/master/rpm-5.4.10-postpone_subpackage_build_failures.patch
What do people think? Are others interested in such modifications?
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Regards,
Denis.
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