RPM building section of RHL's developer guide

[Jeff Johnson]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:41:41PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> >
> > (aside) I'd like to add the closure check to rpmbuild, what stops me is
> > that noone is willing to figger means to maintain the equivalent of a
> > rpmdb-redhat package incrementally. Without that, it's premature to
> > check for dependency closure in rpmbuild. So the immediate problem is
> > to establish the need of creating a rpmdb-redhat database so that the
> > tools necessary to do the job can start being written.
> 
> What are the problems with doing this with the justdb flag? It seems to me
> that you could do this automatically, based on the packages in rawhide
> say, though presumably it can't be that simple or it would already have
> been done.
> 

Yup, --justdb works quite well. The issue is who is willing to maintain,
not whether rpm supports. Different problems, one process, the other mechanism.

Further refinements on mechanism are quite possible, it's not like
adding the line of code
	rc = rpmdbAdd(rpmdb_redhatdb, buildtime, h, NULL, NULL);
is hard for me to implement in rpm or anything.

But that is only mechanism, what's needed is thought on the policy on when
to do that, and which database to choose.

73 de Jeff

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