Bug 712350

Created attachment 504087 [details]
Removes Rake circular dependency

"Circular dependency" means BR: rubygem-rake pulls in rubygem-flexmock in buildroot??

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/rubygem-flexmock/0.9.0/1.fc15/data/logs/noarch/root.log

No circular dependency is on building rubygem-flexmock.

It means that for build of Rake is required Flexmock while for build of Flexmock is required Rake. That is pain.

So the "issue" here is that rake rubygem-rake uses flexmock to check some functionality. Then it is possible that rake adds more and more tests using other external gems. It is similarly add that every time rubygem-rake adds such BR dependency you say such components to kill dependency on rubygem-rake instead.

And we can do bootstrap easily instead anyway - just don't to %check when needed - no need to use $ ruby -Ifoo craft.

Yes, I know how to bootstrap. I will need to do that several times, therefore it would help to remove the unnecessary dependency and the need of bootstrapping at all. You don't loose anything, but you win easier bootstrap.

Actually everytime you upgrade flexmock you should:
1) build flexmock
2) build rake
3) rebuild flexmock again to ensure that the circular build dependency is correct.

But if you remove the dependency on rake, then it is trimmed down to:
1) build flexmock
2) build rake to ensure that rake is not FTBFS.

Actually you should test every package which has BR or R on rake after update, which I don't expect is true, because we are not living in ideal world. However, if something doesn't depends on Rake, it cannot break due to update of Rake and vice versa.

It seems that flexmock is not needed to build rake anymore.