rpm-4.6 and brp-python-bytecompile?

[Carl D. Roth]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:36:20 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 28 2009, Carl D. Roth said:
>> I noticed this wierdness with rpm-4.6 (f10) and rpm-4.7 (f11)...  When
>> I build packages including Python scripts, sometimes the .pyc and .pyo
>> files are included in the package manifest, and sometimes, they are
>> not.
> [snip]
>> Why does the %__os_install_post macro vary in these examples?  It's a
>> little frustrating, since a spec file that works outside of a mock
>> chroot may not work inside, and vice-versa.
> 
> Make sure you always have redhat-rpm-config installed
> 
> Jeremy

Since it appears to be necessary to build RPMs on a Fedora system, why 
isn't there a dependency chain between redhat-rpm-config and rpm-build?

C