Automatic BuildRequires

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 03:49:42PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2008 05:16:50 am Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:15:38AM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 11:01 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > [I'm sure this isn't the first time this has occurred to someone, or
> > > > even been done -- but couldn't find anything for it in Google ...]
> > > >
> > > > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/
> > > >
> > > > This tries to find the correct set of BuildRequires automatically when
> > > > running 'rpmbuild'.  Just replace the ordinary rpmbuild command with
> > > > auto-br-rpmbuild, and it will print out a suggested set of
> > > > BuildRequires lines at the end.  For example:
> > >
> > > I take it that it needs to be run in a system/root that already has the
> > > appropriate packages installed?
> >
> > Yes, you just run it on a normal system.  The main idea is so you
> > don't have to keep submitting Koji jobs because you missed out some
> > BuildRequires.
> Thats what mock on your local system is for.

Or the same for mock ...

Rich.

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