BuildRequires on python-abi

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Tue Apr 5 10:44:35 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Note that src.rpm packages have dependencies, too, which are queried
> just like binary rpm dependencies: rpm -qpR foo.src.rpm

Technically true, but it in this case they're purely artificial. The
actual BuildRequires can only be gleaned directly from the spec file
unfortunately.

> If you build a src.rpm with "BuildRequires: python-abi = %pyver", you
> effectively hardcode that build requirement in the src.rpm package.
> This is bad, not just because mach fetches the BR from there.

Please, do tell.

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