[CentOS] yum groupinstall "Development Tools" overkill

Daniel de Kok danieldk at pobox.com
Wed May 16 11:33:21 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:27 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Is there any comprehensive list (in some forum or some WiKi) for 
> everything necessary to build apps from source and/or build source RPMS?

SRPMs normally have a BuildRequires field that specifies what build
dependencies are required. When running rpmbuild, it wil exit if not all
build dependencies are installed. yum-builddep from yum-utils will
install all listed build dependencies given a source package.

-- Daniel




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