[Fedora-packaging] Can rpmbuild resolve these 4 issues ?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:21:40 -0700 (PDT), KA (Kamal) wrote:

> 
> I found these in a article on mach:
> ref: http://psg.com/~brian/howto/mach.html
> 
> 
> 	1. Given a spec file, rpmbuild won't download the source tarball and/or
> patches. You have to fetch those yourself into the SOURCES directory.
> 	2. rpmbuild will abort if any build-time dependencies are missing, forcing
> you to stop what you're doing, and go and build and install those packages too.
> 	3. When your package configures itself, it may auto-detect libraries which
> are available on your build system, but which are not going to be available
> on the target system. For example, if openldap-devel is present then
> openldap may be linked into your binaries, but if the RPM doesn't declare
> openldap as a dependency, then it will fail to run on the target system.
> This is an insiduous problem, which I call "the curse of autoconf".
> 	4. You can only build packages for the same type of system as your build
> machine (e.g. CentOS 4 binaries on a CentOS 4 build system)
> Is there a way we can use rpmbuild to resolve these issues?

Take a look at "mock" instead?
yum -y install mock ; man mock

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