Please add autoconf and automake to the buildroot

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:57:40PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Personally I think we should a bit more flexible and open to consider
> adding packages that have very real potential of stopping undetectable
> rpm corruption. Call me crazy... but I think thats a good idea verses
> sticking to a policy that allows corruption...

>From the early days of the rebuilds, in my private rebuild system that
I've been publishing results from weekly, I've posted the rpmdiffs for
each and every package that built - diff of package as found in the
pre-mock rawhide vs what came out of mock.  This was done explicitly
so folks could see if the mock builds made substantially different
packages than the non-mock builds.  I know I looked at those files to
be sure my own packages were building consistently, I'm sure others
did too.  This was done in hopes of detecting the "undetectable rpm
corruption" issues exactly like this.

http://linux.dell.com/files/fedora/FixBuildRequires/

Now that everything from buildsys.fedoraproject.org has been rebuilt
using mock, there's probably little benefit to doing so.  But there
was, and it's trivial do to.  Perhaps I should have pointed this out
more frequently and loudly, with nagmails etc, but I didn't want to
flood people (early on in May-June, I published the results every couple days).

-Matt

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