From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:51267 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbaGWAkx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:40:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:38:00 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Problem building xfsprogs Message-ID: <20140723003800.GV25291@thunk.org> References: <20140722160641.GU17967@beardog.cce.hp.com> <20140722215151.GO25291@thunk.org> <20140722220449.GR4453@dastard> <20140722221950.GQ25291@thunk.org> <20140722230424.GS4453@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140722230424.GS4453@dastard> Sender: fstests-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Cc: scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com, fstests@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:04:24AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I didn't say that. I'm not sure how you made the leap from being > asked "can you document the build dependencies you needed to solve" > to "lets make xfstests run without any external dependencies". I'm > trying to get someone to document the build dependencies in the > INSTALL file, not trying to justify the existence of your xfstests > fork ;) It's not a fork. If you look at xfstests-bld, it is an infrastructure which pulls in via get the latest version of xfstests, and builds it in a hermetic environment. Think of it as a distribution independent packaging infrastructure for xfstests. It's as much of a fork as Red Hat's varoius source rpms. And like many packaging setups, it can be far more convenient for people to use the package build scripts than to try to build various source packages from scratch, and having to worry about all of the various dependencies. Regards, - Ted