chain build in F-8

[Denis Leroy]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:04 +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
>> I updated libmpd in F-8 and F-7 and I would now like to build gmpc
>> which
>> depends on the new version of libmpd. chain-build failed for me with
>> F-8. What is the correct way to get libmpd in my buildroot? Do I have
>> to
>> push it to testing? Just wait a bit longer? Thanks.
> 
> Once it's pushed to stable, it's available for buildroots. Until then,
> if you need it for another package please email
> rel-eng at fedoraproject.org noting that you'd like that package (with full
> NVR) added to the buildroot override, and reason for it.

I hit the same problem all the time with the gtkmm updates, which are 3 
to 4-deep dependency chains. How could we automate this ? Having to mail 
rel-eng for this seems particularly inefficient, and it's also a 
regression from the plague/FC-6 days...

-denis