On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Robert Schiele wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:08:07AM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > > So, unfortunately a automated tool for reducing BuildRequires is hard > > because it actually needs to check if building is still possible. > > If it was only that it wouldn't be that hard because you could actually test > in an automated way whether a build succeeds or not. But it is actually > harder because it would be needed to check whether it builds _and_ and result > is what you wanted to have. For example a package that can be built with or > without a specific optional support library with just less functionality > without this support library would always tend to remove this dependency thus > losing the (eventually) wanted functionality.
Yes - I did this once semi-manually by ensuring the built packages is (nearly) bit-for-bit identical to the old one. I hope to get back to it at the point OBS supports bootstrapping Base:build. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
