[Rpm-maint] [PATCH v3] Allow '--short-circuit' for '-bb'

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Jun 23 13:09:25 UTC 2010


On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Michal Schmidt wrote:

> This patch allows short-circuiting of building binary packages. To
> prevent accidental use of short-circuited rpms, they are marked with
> an unsatisfiable dependency "rpmlib(ShortCircuited)". A developer using
> this feature for local development and testing will use "--nodeps".
> Should such a rpm leak into the world, users will quickly notice
> it does not install by default.
>
> (v3: avoids API change, suggested by Panu Matilainen.
> v2: added poisoning with unsatisfiable dependency.)

Applied, thanks for the patch. Hopefully this is the end of the 
short-circuit saga... (I'm allowed to dream, right ;)

 	- Panu -


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