Implicit/minimum buildrequires

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 13:49:51 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:03, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any policy doc on BuildRequires for Red Hat
> rpms, I've been playing with mach and severn srpms from fedora CVS and
> due to the very minimal nature of the mach environment I get missing
> BuildRequires.
> 
> I'm aware of the policy for fedora which seems slightly stricter than
> that for Red Hat rpms.
> 
> Is there a document or guide for the minimal build environment for
> building Red Hat rpms, or should missing BuildRequires go straight to
> bugzilla.

Generally, the policy is that all BuildRequires should be there. So,
feel free to Bugzilla anything you find missing. Well, within reason ...
maybe not BuildRequires: /bin/sh.

Regards,
						Owen







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