On 02/04/10 03:18, Thayer Williams wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
If you rebuild packages you should build bottom-up; means rebuild the deps of a package first. It's probably best to join our irc channel to communicate which packages you are about to rebuild. If something doesn't build you might find patches at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/$pkgname
And please avoid using versioned deps.
This is probably a stupid question, but...
How exactly do you know whether to use versioned deps? For example, I was going to rebuild mutt which currently requires openssl>=0.9.8e from when Tobias maintained it. Do I need to update the dep version or will 0.9.8e still suffice?
I'd just remove it. Basically the arguement against widespread usage of versioned deps is if you put a versioned openssl>=1.0 there and someone does "pacman -Sy mutt", it will pull in the new openssl and break many packages on their system. If you do not put it there, it will only break mutt. Allan