Fedora Core package cleanup project

Joost Soeterbroek fedora at soeterbroek.com
Sat May 13 20:40:04 UTC 2006


Will Woods wrote:
> I'm announcing the start of a new QA project, and I'm asking for your
> help. 
> 
> In the past, Core packages have not been held to the same standards as
> Extras. We want to fix this! We're starting by cleaning up the spec
> files so that Core packages can all be built using Mock. (If you aren't
> familiar with Mock, it's a cool RPM build tool that we use to build
> Fedora Extras.)
> 
> This is where you come in: We need people to attempt Mock builds of
> Fedora Core packages, and file bugs when they find packages that don't
> build. 

I have mock-build several FC packages from devel today and I am running 
into the same missing dependencies every time: libX11 and libX11-devel 
(present in FC5) are not in devel.

What is/should it be replaced with?

Joost Soeterbroek






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