[Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:39:16AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 15.12.2013 11:55, Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
> >On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:57:00AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> >>>* It might be interesting to have some script, which tries to audit
> >>>BR, e.g. it removes all BR first and then adds them back as they are
> >>>required. This could reveal some BR which are actually not needed
> >>>anymore, but are listed among BR from historic reasons.
> >>This is kind of hard to do without extensive functional tests, because it
> >>may be that a BR was added because the build completes happily without it
> >>but misses the related functionality. (This is pretty common, I think.)
> >auto-buildrequires (http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/)
> >uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to find out what BuildRequires are packages
> >are actually touched during the build.  Therefore it does not suffer
> >from this problem.
> >
> >Rich.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, there are some BR which are needed to pass the test
> suite, there are also other languages, which does not produce ELF
> files .... So it might help, but it does not solve everything.

auto-buildrequires will find all those dependencies.  The only
thing it won't probe are statically linked binaries.

Rich.

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