mock and fc5/fe5 and comps pain

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Dec 13 16:24:16 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:
>> Old fedora.us and our current Extras packaging guidelines tell folks to 
>> test their builds against the minimum build environment pulled in by the 
>> artifical deps of the fedora-rpmdevtools package.  You could just use 
>> fedora-rpmdevtools as the base package instead of creating yet another 
>> package to pull in minimum buildroot deps.
> 
> We'd need a fair bit more stuff than is in fedora-rpmdevtools:
>  - createrepo, buildsys-macros, python, rpm-python, 
> 
> take a look at the contents of this file:
> http://fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/4/i386/buildroots.xml
> 
> that's what we need and that's a bit of a problem for
> fedora-rpmdevtools.
> 

OK no problem.  So do you think this package should exist in the Extras 
tree, or a special case outside?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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