Buildroots for RHEL

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:12 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> 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.

oh - buildsys-macros is in the buildgroups dir,umm, here.

http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/rhel4/i386/

I don't think it is checked in anywhere, actually.

it should be.

-sv