On Jun 26, 2006, at 8:19 AM, seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:08 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
To illustrate what I meant by "populating", let me point out the technical detail in FC6 that there are *still* missing dependencies like Requires: gcc, make
These of course are no-brainers that are supplied by the choice of the packages that are always installed.
So the issue is really that mock as currently used in FC6 has fewer packages in base, thereby exposing more missing build dependencies than are present in FC3/RHEL4.
This is why I said "FUTURE RELEASES".
I heard you the first time.
Fedora Core Development/6 is being built (ultimately) by mock. Which means the packaging requirements and the minimum buildroot has been taken care of.
Fedora has spent the last few weeks tracking down missing buildreqs in packages in core so as to make the whole system buildable using mock.
mock with an "everything" rather than a "FC6 minimal" buildroot would surely work today.
And the issue is what packages are implicitly in the base set, not how many build dependencies are missing.
Still, a manifest to be installed on single-arch build systems is dirt simple to maintain. For a RHEL derived distro, the issue of updating to the latest available as soon as possible simply doesn't matter as much as it does for FC6 development.
73 de Jeff