example of buildsys rpm

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Apr 5 14:50:25 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:08 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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> Enrico Scholz wrote:
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> >
> >For what are these Requires:? AFAIS, they are not part of the minimal
> >buildroot defined at
> >
> >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-4cadce5e79d38a63cad3941de1dadc9d25d67d30
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> >and will hide packaging errors.
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> I wondered about those packages myself. What you saw in the specfile I
> sent to the list was just a mechanical translation of:
> 
>     http://fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/4/i386/buildroots.xml
> 
> I wasn't really trying to apply any thought to the actual contents; I
> was just trying to prototype a "requires-only" RPM to see how hard it
> would be to generate/maintain.  We can determine the contents later,
> now I'd like to make sure that the basic concept (rpm to define the
> contents of a chroot) is sound.


There need to be 3 pkgs, probably:

buildsys-minimal
buildsys-base
buildsys-build

to match up to the 3 groups in that buildroots.xml file.

the contents of those groups can be re-discussed, if need be, but they
were discussed once before, too, iirc.
-sv





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