Build order with dependencies #182

New Issue

Jef Roosens · 2022-05-15T10:50:01Z

Jef Roosens commented

2022-05-15 10:50:01 +00:00

An interesting problem arises when packages depend on other packages in the Vieter repository. The dependencies' builds should run before the package that it's dependent on to ensure they're both up to date. This would require us to know the order of the builds.

One idea would be to enforce having a .SRCINFO in the Git repo containing the PKGBUILD; the AUR does this as well. The cron server could then use this information to schedule the repositories accordingely. It would however require the cron server to clone all the repositories beforehand instead of during the build. I'm not also not sure what would need to happen if the dependency isn't scheduled for a rebuild yet.

An interesting problem arises when packages depend on other packages in the Vieter repository. The dependencies' builds should run before the package that it's dependent on to ensure they're both up to date. This would require us to know the order of the builds. One idea would be to enforce having a .SRCINFO in the Git repo containing the PKGBUILD; the AUR does this as well. The cron server could then use this information to schedule the repositories accordingely. It would however require the cron server to clone all the repositories beforehand instead of during the build. I'm not also not sure what would need to happen if the dependency isn't scheduled for a rebuild yet.

Jef Roosens added the

idea

label 2022-05-15 10:50:01 +00:00

Jef Roosens commented

2022-08-28 07:58:22 +00:00

Poster

Very interesting, in the compiler source code there's a dependency graph resolver that we could import.

Sign in to join this conversation.