BuildRequires on python-abi

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:17 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> I was looking at some packages with:
> 
> BuildRequires: python-abi = %{pyver}
> 
> when this is in an srpm, built on fc3 it comes out as python-abi = 2.3
> when you try to rebuild this srpm on rawhide it is impossible to provide
> the buildreq b/c nothing provides python-abi = 2.3.

...

That makes NO sense whatsoever. Shouldn't rpmbuild look at the spec file
alone for build-time dependencies? Or does --rebuild work differently
from -bb?

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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