[Fedora-packaging] Scratch building against a package in testing

[Rex Dieter]

On 01/30/2013 12:08 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:20:28AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> On 01/30/2013 11:16 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>>> Is it possible to do a scratch build against a package that's only
>>> available in the testing repo?
>>
>> No, but you can submit a buildroot override to have it included,
>> http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/override
>
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong? The package I'm trying to scratch build
> (perl-qpid_proton) depends on qpid-proton-devel, which is a subpackage
> of qpid-proton. When I tried to add qpid-proton-devel-0.3-3.fc18 it said
> it was an invalid package on the above webpage. But when I don't then
> the scratch build fails saying it can't find qpid-proton-devel.

The name of the package you want is to add to overrides is:
qpid-proton-0.3-3.fc18

(the name of the 'base' pkg or srpm)

-- rex