Re: Bootstrap problem

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 4:03 AM Peymaneh Nejad <p.nejad@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on packaging github.com/smallstep/zcrypto (which is a indirect
> dependency of caddy)
>
> These are the dependencies:
>
> * github.com/smallstep/zcrypto depends on github.com/zmap/zcertificate
> v0.0.0-20190521191901-30e388164f71
>
> * github.com/zmap/zcertificate v0.0.0-20190521191901-30e388164f71
>
> depends on github.com/zmap/zcrypto
>
> * github.com/zmap/zcrypto depends on github.com/zmap/zcertificate
> v0.0.0-20180516150559-0e3d58b1bac4
>
> So what I need to do is
> 1. package the earlier commit of github.com/zmap/zcertificate which has no
> dependencies
> 2. build github.com/zmap/zcrypto using the older version
> 3. build recent version of github.com/zmap/zcertificate
> 4. build github.com/smallstep/zcrypto using the newer version
>
> I am wondering: Is it even possible to upload 2 Versions of the same exact
> package to the same repos? Is there a debian way of solving this kind of
> bootstrap problem? Advice is very appreciated :)
>

You don't need to enable all features for a library.
For example, in github.com/zmap/zcertificate, github.com/zmap/zcrypto
is only imported in it's cmd and test. So just excluding these
fearues, you can break the loop.

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Shengjing Zhu