Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Handling dependencies

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Martin Glazer wrote:

>On December 26, 2003 10:56 am, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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>>Martin Glazer wrote:
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>>>On December 26, 2003 10:13 am, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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>>>>Martin Glazer wrote:
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>>>>>How does DL handle package dependencies?
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>>>>>I found that the build will fail when certain packages are missing
>>>>>dependencies - for example: squid fails if LDAP is not selected, gcc
>>>>>fails if the gcc Stack Smashing Protector is not selected, etc.
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>>>>Should not happen.
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>>>>>How is this or should this be resolved?
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>>>>Those are simply bugs in the build system which have to be resolved.
>>>>I.e. for squid there must be a IF statement added, which adds LDAP
>>>>support only when LDAP is selected.
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>>>>GCC must also work without the SSP selected.
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>>>>It would be great if you could help us out there and fix it.
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>>>Sure.
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>>Cool thanks.
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>>>I don't see a problem doing the squid fix, but I'll have to look into the
>>>gcc issue further. No promises on time though, as I'm going on vacation
>>>for the next month and will have limited access.
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>>A full month vacation ? Lucky you !
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>Haven't been home for 5 years and with 2 days travel time each way, a month 
>goes by pretty quickly...
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I can accept you "excuse". ;-)

>>Take your time, it's enough when you finish it by tonight. ;-)
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>I'll talk to the pilot - explain the situation about me having to fix this 
>stuff and see if they can make any exceptions about putting laptops away 
>during take-off and landings. I'm sure they'll understand ;-)
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Yes they will. Otherwise just tell them when they don't let you, you 
will explode. ;-)

Heiko