Buildroots for RHEL

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just noticed that http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/ now
> has buildgroups for RHEL; alas, at least for RHEL4, they are broken.
> 
> When trying to use them, I ran into two problems:
>      1. the buildsys-build rpm does not pull in python; that's actually
>         two problems: 
>              A. rpmbuild complains that 'el' is not a valid macro name,
>                 and ignores the conditionals in the specfile that should
>                 add a dependency on python, (filed as bz#211511)
>              B. the buildsys site has old RPM's. Who maintains that ?
>      2. buildsys-macros depends on rpmdevtools, which does not exist for
>         RHEL. A patch against the specfile from [1] is attached; it
>         removes the use of rpmdevtools completely. Where are the
>         specfiles for buildsys-macros maintained ? Couldn't find them in
>         CVS.
> 

1. buildsys-list is better for this
2. spec for buildsys-macros are in the mock package.

-sv