pam src rpm replaced?

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 02:54:29 -0400 (EDT), Mike A. Harris wrote:

> >Concerning missing buildrequires, it would be nice if someone from Red
> >Hat could post a short comment on how clean their build environment is
> 
> It depends on what exactly you mean by "how clean is the build 
> environment".  That question could be interpreted in 10 different 
> ways by 10 different people.  Can you be more specific?

With "clean build environment" I refer to the amount of what is
installed without being a dependency. I mean that every -devel
package, every tool which is needed to build a src.rpm would not be
found unless it is a buildreq or a dependency of a package which is
installed already. Sort of a minimal installation of Red Hat Linux
with only rpm-build and its dependencies installed. Every additional
package required to build a src.rpm would need to be an explicit
BuildRequires in the src.rpm.

A less clean environment would have a few core development tools
installed always, e.g. compilers, interpreters (such a Perl) or related
utilities (make, patch, parser generators), so that they don't need to
be listed as buildreqs in a high number of src.rpms. Of course, this
could also be done with a new development-core package, like
fedora-rpmdevtools does it to pull in some dependencies which are
considered essential for a build environment.

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