Okay, thanks. So I guess whether or not this functionality goes into
yum or not (to me it seems to be the most intuitive place) is
irrelevant. What is important is that there is a tool available that
does my 2 steps. Might mock be enhanced to be that tool?<br>
<br>
Either way, I think it would be great if the tools for src rpms were
just as powerful as those for binary rpms. I understand I'm probably
looking over many factors which prevent simple solutions to some of the
problems mentioned, but I'm sure the problems are worth solving for the
reasons I outlined in my &quot;long, tragic tale&quot; :).<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Miller</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:mattdm@mattdm.org">mattdm@mattdm.org</a>&gt; wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:48:12PM -0500, Sadda Teh wrote:<br>&gt; 1. Download src rpms and dependent libraries required for successfully
<br>&gt; rebuilding the requested source download(s)<br>&gt; 2. Extract the the source tarball to some standard location so the developer<br>&gt; can cd to that dir and be able to immediately do a ./configure &amp;&amp; make
<br>&gt; without errors<br><br>Why do you assume that there's a source tarball at all? I think if you'll<br>look at what's inside a lot of source RPMs, you'll find your #2 is a lot<br>harder than you think.<br><br>#1 is also harder than it may appear at first glance. However, there's been
<br>some good work at addressing it. Check out &quot;mock&quot;:<br>&lt;<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock</a>&gt;<br><br>But for #1: what you want is &quot;mock&quot;.
<br><br>--<br>Matthew
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