state of contrib

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:32:40 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.arklinux.devel
Organization Ark Linux team
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
the contrib build environment is in rather bad shape atm, the problem is this:

/opt/arkbuild-client/bin/do-updbuildroot: line 35: /bin/rpm: Argument list
 too long

In short, through package additions and splits, the command line generated by 
the "rpm -Fvh i586/* noarch/* contrib/i586/* contrib/noarch/*" command is too 
long to be handled by the shell.

We'll probably have to hack the build system to do some variant of apt-get -y 
dist-upgrade instead of rpm -Fvh (downside: This will definitely break for 
temporary dependency issues, e.g. when we move to KDE 4.0 and something in 
the tree [everything when we start moving] still needs KDE 3.x libs, apt-get 
will refuse to do its job).

Until this is resolved, please don't build anything in contrib, it'll fail 
anyway.

I'll drop a note to devel-list when I've come up with a fix, if someone beats 
me to it or has a better idea for a fix, please let me know.

LLaP
bero