On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@linaro.org> wrote:

I was writing it this morning. It actually pulls all of the branches that compose lava and gives you an ability to install them in a managed virtualenv instance.

Great!

It seems to me,
that on some things, this could be overkill, or not really make it that much
simpler. For instance... in the case of lava-test you may want to also
install python-apt, but there are other things like usbutils. In the case
of the dispatcher, it can also run completely from the source branch.

So there are three possible cases:

1) A component has no dependencies and runs from tree (awesome!)
2) A component depends on something we make
3) A component depends on something others make

But what about where other non-python packages need to be installed for it to work properly? That was the main thing I was trying to sort out? Does the recipe have a rule to do this? In the case where post-install configuration is needed, does it point the user to instructions for how to do that?

Thanks,

Paul Larson