File-5.14 in rawhide - removing file-static subpackage

Bill Peck bpeck at redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 14:29:06 UTC 2013


On 03/22/2013 10:23 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:45:51 -0400, Bill Peck wrote:
>
>> Being a static library, how could repoquery tell you if anyone was using it?
> Unconditional BuildRequires in a spec file become the src.rpm's Requires.
> If the packaging guidelines are followed, you can query for packages
> depending on -static packages at build-time, e.g.
>
> # repoquery --archlist=src --whatrequires file-static --enablerepo='fedora-source'
> # repoquery --archlist=src --whatrequires file-devel --enablerepo='fedora-source'|wc -l
> 21
>

Thank you and Adam for that.  I didn't realize you could query the 
buildrequires like that.


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