On Thu, Apr 21, 2005, Michael van Elst wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:13:38PM +0200, Matthias Kurz wrote: [...] > Packages in RPM/PKG are only relevant when you do not upgrade > but reinstall the version (with the same options or a superset of > the options) that was once installed.
Maybe it was not with upgrade (-U) but with some other option(s). I observed, that packages that _should_ have been recompiled - because one or more prerequisites were recompiled - were not recompiled. Instead the binary package from RPM/PKG was reinstalled. This happened for installed packages where no new source packages existed. From then on i always used the "-u" option. > > But. To solve the problem of duplicate packages in the "build" part > > probably adds too much complexity in the wrong place. I think it would > > be better (easier ?) to put this functionality in the "index" part. E.g. > > an option -d for "delete older versions of a package". > > I do not really understand your setup. Do you compute the index > directly from RPM/PKG on the build host ? I have one build host for every platform/release. There the packages are compiled from sources, leading to binary packages under RPM/PKG. In this RPM/PKG i run "openpkg index" and it is mounted inside a hierarchy that is accessible over anonymous ftp. From there the "slave" machines get their binary packages. Whenever a new package is compiled from sources, that means, when a new binary package is created, the previous version of the binary package _remains_ in RPM/PKG. So the different versions of a binary package add up. When i delete RPM/PKG completely, there is nothing left to install the slave hosts. When i _move_ everything from RPM/PKG to another place, then i just have the same problem (many versions of the binary packages) in this other place. I guess, in the meantime one could have written _two_ scripts that analyze 00INDEX.rdf (<Name/>, <BuildTime/>) and remove duplicates :) (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
