rpmbuild-order: Order RPM packages by dependencies
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The rpmbuild-order tool orders RPM packages by dependencies, so that they can be built in the correct order. It does this by reading RPM package spec files and then topologically sorts them according to their dependencies. The code originated from cabal-sort by Henning Thielemann. It can also output the ordered dependencies or reverse depends for one or more packages, provided all the packages are checked out in neighboring directories. This is also useful to see what packages are affected when a low-level package changes. Since version 0.4 there is a library too.
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| Versions | 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.2.1, 0.4.3, 0.4.3.1, 0.4.3.2, 0.4.4, 0.4.4.1, 0.4.5, 0.4.6, 0.4.6.1, 0.4.7, 0.4.8, 0.4.9, 0.4.10, 0.4.11, 0.4.12 |
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| Change log | ChangeLog.md |
| Dependencies | base (<5), bytestring, Cabal, case-insensitive, containers, directory, extra (>=1.6.4), fgl, filepath, optparse-applicative, process, rpmbuild-order, simple-cmd-args [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | 2010-2018 Henning Thielemann, 2018-2020 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> |
| Author | Henning Thielemann <haskell@henning-thielemann.de> |
| Maintainer | Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> |
| Category | Distribution |
| Home page | https://github.com/juhp/rpmbuild-order |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/juhp/rpmbuild-order/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/juhp/rpmbuild-order |
| Uploaded | by JensPetersen at 2020-08-03T19:18:23Z |
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rpmbuild-order
This package originally based on code from cabal-sort, sorts rpm package spec files by build order.
$ rpmbuild-order --help
$ rpmbuild-order sort mycore mylib myapp
mylib
mycore
myapp
The arguments passed can either be directories containing the package, or spec files.
If the dependency graph has cycles then an error will be output with a list of cycles and any subcycles.
Using the rpmbuild-order deps and rdeps commands the ordered
dependencies and reverse dependencies of a package can be obtained
from the current set of checked out package sources.
As of version 0.4, a library is also provided. See the modules' documentation for details.
Notes and known problems
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Given packages A, B, C, where C depends on B, and B depends on A, and you call
rpmbuild-order sort C.spec A.spec
then the output may be wrong if C does not have a direct dependency on A. Even if the order is correct, B is missing in the output and thus in this case the list of packages cannot be reliably used for a sequence of builds.
However the deps and rdeps commands take
other neighbouring package directories into account.
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repoquery is not used to resolve meta-dependencies or files to packages. So if a package BuildRequires a file, it will not be resolved to a package. This may get addressed some day, but file dependencies seem less common for BuildRequires than Requires.
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rpmspec is used to parse spec files (for macro expansion etc): so missing macros packages may lead to erroneous results.