[Fedora-packaging] How do Packaging

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Apr 18 03:31:36 UTC 2012


On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:35:45 +0200
Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Try and build it without any BuildRequires, see what doesn't work,
> > figure out what it's looking for and add that, then repeat. 
> 
> There is a risk with that method. Some build system try to be smart
> and automatically turn off optional features if they don't find some
> library that those features require. When the build seems to work,
> you still need to check that all the components and features that the
> software is supposed to have are actually there.

Sure, you should check build logs and the software's docs on what it
needs to build too. 

kevin
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