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

[Jon Ciesla]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Kamal Ahmed <kamal2222ahmed at yahoo.com> wrote:
> mock seems better than mach, but they both seem to be good for testing ,
> before publishing RPMs
> What i wanted to know if there is a way to AUTO install the dependencies
> rather than just pointing them out
> I could do it in %post.

That's what yum does, if your package is in a yum repo.  If not,
install it with yum install foo.rpm, and it will grab the deps from
the repo if available.

> Now the binaries for the dependencies along with their respective config
> files with become part of the rpm that i ship.

The other requirements won't be part of your RPM, nor should they be.

> Any comments ?
> Thanks,
> -Kamal.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
> To: packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Can rpmbuild resolve these 4 issues ?
>
> 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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