BuildRequires: redhat-rpm-config

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 19:13 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 05:45 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:56 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >
> >>   - Is this a bug in redhat-rpm-config/Python/RPM/Fedora?
> >
> > Yes.  People hit this _constantly_ in a lot of ways.  Like "why am I not
> > getting debuginfo packages".  The theory is that you might want to build
> > with some other set of macros, which is why rpmbuild doesn't just
> > require r-r-c.
> >
> > I think this is foolish, and that we should just fix rpmbuild: if you
> > wanted some other set of macros, start by rebuilding rpm to require
> > something other than r-r-c.  The counter-argument is - and I find this
> > completely baffling - that it's easier to replace packages than rebuild
> > them, so that instead rpmbuild should Require: system-rpm-config and
> > then r-r-c happens to be what provides that by default.  Which, sure,
> > that's also a thing we could do.
> 
> Well, technically rpmbuild does NOT require redhat-rpm-config to 
> function, building "Fedora compliant" packages does. Anyway, I got tired 
> of this argument in March, so Fedora >= 20 has this:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpm.git/commit/?id=6fb2566e2d6d8b2e29e9f671bf9f157de25e9908

Awesome, thanks!

- ajax