Buildroots for RHEL

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:50 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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

Ok. Had no idea that list existed (it's not announced on
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/)

> 2. spec for buildsys-macros are in the mock package.

No. buildsys-build.spec is, buildsys-macros.spec isn't.

David