12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
1:33 p.m.
Peter Simons wrote:
Hi Magnus,
Once package FOO is installed, and linked to local versions of its dependencies, there is not much we can do to prevent that an update to FOO's dependencies breaks the *local* system if it's upgraded.
Why can't we bump $pkgrel of those packages that depend on FOO?
Um, sorry, I was confused for a moment. I meant to say, of course, why can't we bump the $pkgrel of FOO whenever one of its dependencies is updated? Wouldn't that remedy this problem?
Take care, Peter
That's what I've been going on about with topological update scripts. We can eventually provide tools to automatically rebuild packages as well, but in the short term it should be easy to do bump the necessary packages when releasing updates.