Latest build oops. (Dag Wieers)

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Dean Takemori wrote:

> On Jun 5, 2006, at 12:00 AM, freshrpms-list-request at freshrpms.net wrote:
> > From: Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Dean Takemori wrote:
> > 
> > > As part of the recent perl-Authen-SASL DAG update, I've had to build
> > > perl-Pod-Coverage to fulfill some prerequisites (perl-Authen-SASL
> > > requires perl-GSSAPI, which requires perl-Test-Pod-Coverage which
> > > has a install prereq of perl-Pod-Coverage).
> > > 
> > > I get a build error on my heavily customized FC1 (+ various RPMforge
> > > stuff).
> > 
> > I provide a perl-Pod-Coverage for all distributions since March 2005. So
> > what's the problem using that one ?
> 
> I generally build all packages myself (with --target=athlon).  90% of
> the time (apart from the athlon part), it makes no difference - especially
> with the perl/noarch stuff. 

Does it make a big difference when you build them with --target=athlon ?
Even if it doesn't, it's nice to get bugreports from someone who's 
building in parallel. I'd encourage more people to do that and report 
problems.


> But once in a while I've caught a small
> .spec bug, missing dependency or some such anomaly, so I report them when
> I find them.  (In a few rare cases, I _must_ build myself due to some
> incompatibility I introduced with my customization.)

I'm interested to know what this means :) What customization need custom 
builds ? Maybe there's some broader use for this so we can accomodate this 
customization ?

Kind regards,
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