On Mon, 06 May 2013 00:31:08 -0400 James Antill <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 17:46 +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > I've "hacked" together a small patch the last few days to basically > > convert yum-builddep to always use specfiles for build dep > > resolution. > > > > It does so by extracting the specfile from srpms to a temporary > > file and uses that then to generate the build dependencies. > > > > The advantage here is obviously that this way yum-builddep would > > become arch agnostic and the year old problem of srpms actually > > being binary rpms would be solved. > > So, AIUI, this won't fix that. As koji/etc. would need to be fixed > for that to happen for distros. ... and AFAIK koji doesn't use > yum-builddep. Pretty much everyone outside a distro. only cares about > one arch, and most don't use yum-builddep either ;). > > Saying that, a bunch of people have wanted this feature, so I don't > see a reason to not give it to them. Two things though: > > 1. It'd be nice to put the code to extract the file somewhere outside > of yum-builddep ... maybe into yum itself, maybe somewhere else. Also > providing a "repoquery --specfile" would be pretty cool (even cooler > if it did arbitrary files in the rpm). > the extraction code would make good sense in rpmUtils somewhere, I think. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
