FC5 full install?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jun 21 10:05:50 UTC 2006
offset wrote:
> I'm sure there are flame/religious wars about whether or not this is a good thing or not, but my requirement is a full install as I do my own custom rpm packaging and development and I want access to all installed packages/libs so I dont have to work out a dependency hell scenario when rolling my own SRPM.
This approach will tend to lead to an SRPM with missing Build
Requirements that won't build on other people's systems. As someone else
suggested, a better solution is to use mock
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock) or mach, which builds
packages in a minimal buildroot. This does mean that you need to sort
out your "dependency hell" issues by adding the correct list of build
requirements in your spec, but as a packager that's part of your job and
it shouldn't be left to other people trying to build your package to
sort out these issues.
Paul.
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