[SM-Discuss] Adding gnupg to every spell
Eric Sandall
eric at sandall.us
Thu Feb 9 12:12:30 EST 2006
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Andrew wrote:
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> I think if we tried to actually explicitly list *all* the depends in
> basesystem, it would become very circular and the ordering wouldn't
> actually any better. So, continuing on this path is really a losing
> proposition the more I think about it.
>
> Right now we dont have a seperate notion of runtime depends vs build
> dependencies. Gnupg, tar, gzip, bzip2 etc are build dependencies in this
> context, we need them installed as per build process, but we dont need
> them after that. On the other hand, things link to glibc, and some other
> core libraries (as well as use the file system tree).
>
> During chroot bootstrapping, the build-depends need to exist on the host
> system, which right now is just assumed. Its actually assumed whenever you
> run a sorcery command. But, the linking dependencies need to build in the
> right order so (ideally) everything can link against their manifestations
> in the chroot. A rebuild isn't really all that different. Once all the
> core libraries are installed, the rest of basesystem can go in mostly
> any order.
>
> So, I think it would best to assume any basesystem *build* dependencies are
> already installed, and only have actual listed depends on 'real'
> depends. Gnupg is a build depends (so, sorry eric, that could probably
> stand to be reverted...), smgl-fhs, glibc, and zlib (maybe some other
> libs) are not, on the other hand.
>
> Those need to be depended on somehow. Either explicitly adding each of
> them to the base spells or using some indirection. Such as a meta-spell
> (as suggested), or using a common file sourced in DEPENDS. The former is
> simpler except it reduces sorcery's visibility into the dependency tree,
> the later might be disagreeable to some.
Well...luckily we can just revert the whole changset with the gnupg
changes.
I just love wasting my time like that. ;) At least smgl-fhs sounds
like it'll stay.
- -sandalle
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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric at sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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