Dependency loops considered harmful?
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 19:31:50 UTC 2008
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:27:26 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > game-0.8 Requires game-data = 0.8
> > game-data-0.8 Requires game (which version? and why?)
> >
> > Case 1)
> > game-data-0.8 Requires game = 0.8
> > What happens if game-1.0 is released with unchanged game-data?
> > Then you need to update game-data for nothing else than the broken dep.
> >
> > Case 2)
> > game-data-0.8 Requires game
> > No version. Hence no dep breakage in all cases where you may update game
> > without updating game-data. Instead, a strict dependency is installed
> > in pkg game: game-%{version} Requires game-data = %{SOME_version}
> > Here you can control the game-data version within pkg "game".
> >
>
> PLease take an actual look at game spec files before making up all kinds of BS,
No reason for such language.
> its really easy:
>
> game Requires game-data = %{needed_data_version}
> game-data Requires game >= %{first game version which uses this data}
It doesn't explain why you need the dependency in game-data, as you only
need it for yum remove -- and "yum install game-data" to pull in the game
program.
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