Re: broken build: would be good to announce new hard dependencies on the mailing list

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pavel Simerda" <psimerda redhat com>
> To: "network manager" <networkmanager-list gnome org>
> Cc: "tetromino" <tetromino gentoo org>
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:58:26 PM
> Subject: broken build: would be good to announce new hard dependencies on     the mailing list
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm maitaining a live ebuild for a Gentoo overlay that builds NetworkManager
> directly from Git:
>
> https://github.com/okias/ixit/blob/master/net-misc/networkmanager/networkmanager-9999.ebuild
>
> Since libndp submodule was removed from git master, the build no longer
> works. I'll certainly package libndp for Gentoo and will eventually fix the
> build, but it would be nice to have changes that break build announced
> publicly. While live ebuilds are targeted for developers rather than end
> users, I would still like to keep them buildable most of the time. In cases
> like libndp where the change is more of a cleanup, it would be nice to know
> about the new dependency in advance, so that I can update the ebuild and
> prepare the library ebuild before it happens.
>
> I'm curious whether Colin's ostree CI build was ready for the change.
>
> No action needed, except on my side, as I haven't yet prepared the libndp
> ebuild.

Fixed:

https://github.com/okias/ixit/blob/master/dev-libs/libndp/libndp-9999.ebuild
https://github.com/okias/ixit/blob/master/net-misc/networkmanager/networkmanager-9999.ebuild

> Cheers,
>
> Pavel
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