Automatic BuildRequires

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I've used auto-br-rpmbuild with my latest full-install mass rebuild and
> > grepped the
> > BuildRequires from the logs.
> > They are available at
> >        http://karsten.fedorapeople.org/buildrequires/
> 
> I'm not sure what to do with this information.  For example, take a
> look at one of my packages: automaton.  It's a Java package.  Yet your
> logs show gstreamer-devel as a BuildRequires.  How did that get in
> there?  And what's going on with the 3 different versions of glibc, on
> 2 arches?
> 
> I've checked a couple of my other packages and had a similar reaction.
>  There are BuildRequires listed that make no sense to me.  Can you
> give more detail on how these lists were generated?  Thanks,

Possibly a bug, possibly because something in the configure script of
the application touches a file in gstreamer-devel.  Take a look at:

http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/

There'll be a fedorahosted project of this soon.

Rich.

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