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