Bug 158497

Summary:	bootstrap repo needed for packages that need bootstrapping
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Infrastructure	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	extras buildsys	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	wtogami
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Description Jens Petersen 2005-05-23 00:18:18 UTC

Description of problem:
Some implementations of programming languages and other toolchain
components require themselves (possibly through a circular dependence) say 
to build in the buildsystem.  So the suggestion was made to have a
bootstrap repository from which the buildsystem can pull such build
dependencies when such a new package is added.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2005-06-28 03:32:30 UTC

ghc and fpc are working round this by using binary bootstrapping fwiw.

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2005-07-01 02:00:19 UTC

Note that this repository was suggested (by Seth) as a way to avoid manually
putting binary packages into the buildroot and also avoiding needlessly
importing huge bootstrap binaries into the tarball repository that would only be
used once.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2005-07-29 19:47:04 UTC

I think binary bootstrapping or one-offs is going to be the way to handle things
like this.