Changeset eec87db

Timestamp:

12/10/2021 05:19:06 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…>

Branches:

ablfs-more, legacy, trunk

Children:

794f94f

Parents:

1870b56

Message:

Add dependency thoughts to BLFS/TODO

File:

• BLFS/TODO (modified) (1 diff)

BLFS/TODO

@@ -16 +16 @@
 
 --   Bugs hunting.
+
+--   About dependencies
+     A. A DEPENDENCY MAY NOT BE INSTALLED EVEN IF NEEDED
+     Currently (December 10th, 2021), the dependencies are only installed
+     if either:
+     - (i)  they are not already installed
+     - (ii) their version is higher than the installed version
+     If a dependency is not installed, its dependencies are not considered.
+     But it may happen that a dependency (depB) of a dependency (depA) is in
+     case (i) or (ii) (most likely), but not depA. In this case, depB is
+     not considered, although it might happen that it is needed for the
+     requested package.
+     So the dependency system should be changed to always compute the full
+     dependency chain, and another function should be created to remove
+     packages not in case (i) or (ii) from the list of generated dependencies.
+     B. CHECKING DEPENDENCIES
+     There are several kinds of checks we might want to implement, for
+     example:
+     - (i)   check that a package can be built with only the listed
+             dependencies, and their dependencies (missing dependency)
+     - (ii)  check that the dependencies do not include dependencies
+             that are already in the dependency chain (redundant dependency)
+     - (iii) check that a dependency is really needed (false dependency)