spm and buildreqs

[Florian La Roche]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:00:41AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Going through this a few more times as I work on some bits inside the
> buildsystem.
> 
> We're given an srpm - we don't know where it was made, on what arch,
> nothing - so we cannot trust the buildreqs it provides.
> 
> If we're inside the chroot and on the arch we want to build on then
> running:
>  rpm -Uvh /path/to/our/srpm
>  rpmbuild -bs --nodeps /path/to/the/generated/spec
>  
> should result in a srpm for us that will have valid build reqs.
> So that if we grab the requires from that srpm we'll have a pretty good
> idea of what we'll need to install to build the package.
> 
> is that correct/accurate/etc?

Yes, that should work. Nice idea...

greetings,

Florian La Roche