[CentOS-devel] FYI: centos reproduceability

David Hrbác(

hrbac.conf at seznam.cz
Fri Apr 24 14:57:13 UTC 2009


Jeff Johnson napsal(a):
> One way to automate is with repeated passes across a manifest of builds.
> 
> Install successes, remove (or repeat that works too) from manifest,
> lather rinse repeat.
> 
> That usually converges pretty fast, like maybe 5-10 passes.
> 
> Ordering the manifest is often not too hard.
> 
> Repeated traverses of a manifest has the distinct advantage that it does
> depend on the quality of build dependencies, which can be unreliable
> outside of an exactly identical build system process. Farkas was using  
> mock iirc.

Jeff,
well, so once again. I'm not asking about the building. I'm just curious
what is Farka's method to prepare SRPMS list to build with respect to
dependencies.
David



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