[csw-maintainers] Cyclic dependency in catalog again

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 11.08.2009 um 19:57 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> I just finished adding checks for cyclic dependencies into chkcat,
> this is what I got:
>
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajccollect.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajcconfig.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajcemail.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajcnet.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWgconf2.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWgnomevfs2.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWgtk2.
> ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWlibgsf.
>
> The last four I knew about since yesterday but the first four were new
> to me. Note that this affects many more packages than those listed
> above.
>
> Feel free to add chkcat as part of the release process before a
> catalog is synced to the mirrors. It has found errors on several
> occasions before as well, just last week we had duplicate entries for
> gcc3.

+1. It hit me at least three times now :-(

I would also like a "take catalog plus these packages"-mode for
package generation, so these get picked up right after the package
has been assembled in GAR. Catching this during release is mandatory,
but it would be better to do earlier in the process too.


Best regards

   -- Dago