Re: CVS update: samba/packaging/RedHat

"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2003 23:52:37 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.network.samba.binaries
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:01:41PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > Modified Files:
> >       Tag: SAMBA_3_0
> > 	samba2.spec.tmpl 
> > Log Message:
> > fix up packaging for RH9
>
> It is always frustrating me that most packagers for RH generally don't put
> BuildRequires: tag into the spec thus making rebuild on different host
> than their own a bit a 'Guessing game'. Could you please run something
> like buildreq from ALT's rpm-utils?
> 
> rsync://rsync.altlinux.org::ALTLinux/Sisyphus/files/SRPMS/rpm-utils-0.6.12-alt1.src.rpm

Didn't know about this.  Thanks.


> It runs rpmbuild under ptrace and then finds out which files were
> accessed during build and to which packages they belong to, and then
> writes BuildRequires: tag with found values to spec file. While those
> values need to re-checked manualy to make sure that nothing wrong
> leaked, it greatly simplifies the process.



cheers, jerry
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