Is it possible to dynamize "requires" at RPM build time?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Aug 23 15:46:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:22:32AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 11:06, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Not that I'm advocating it, but why?  rpmbuild is pretty much
> > independent of the RPM database except for querying build dependencies.
> The rpm database may not have been created with the same rpm you'd be
> using in the buildroot. *BOOM*

You're using "buildroot" in the mock-buildsystem-buildroot sense, not the
rpm-BuildRoot sense, right? Doesn't the chrooted environment get its own rpm
and rpm database? Isn't that the one you want to use?

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