On Donnerstag 20 November 2008 09:37:55 John Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:13:21 +0100, Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>
>
> wrote:
> >> If I use a recursive project reference, is OBS smart enough to break a
> >> loop, or will it explode?
> >
> >Yes, it does break a loop. But it really hurts the scheduler and our logs.
> >And it does make absolut no sence to have a setup like this. When you need
> >anyway both repos, you can put them together in one project.
>
> What I need is not so simple. As I posted earlier, I want to build a
> rollup release including all updates, plus my own package hacks, and I
> want to bootstrap the whole thing from source.
>
> Somewhere the docs say the current project is searched first. That
> may be true for dependencies, but through trial and error, I learned
> that's false for the package itself. When it's already built, and you
> manually trigger a rebuild, hoping to bootstrap it against itself,
> that does not work. OBS searches down the chain, and ignores the
> package in the current project.

You need to classify such package as "Keep: $your_package_name" in the project configuration to get this.

> After trying different ideas, I can see OBS was not designed with the
> idea of easily building a rollup release.

Hey, how do you think we are building our openSUSE releases inside of it ? ;)

bye
adrian

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