On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, "Brian Schüler" wrote: > Calculating the build order out of a set of source RPMs is now possible (even with BuildRequires > from sources which are not included). The little trick rpm -E "`cat foo.spec`" did it. Special thanks > to Jeff J.! But I have to shorten the output to the essentials because 'rpm' is crashing when the output > of the spec file is too long. > > Here an example for alsa-lib package: > > [root at centosmirror alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5]# rpm -E "`cat alsa-lib.spec`" > *** buffer overflow detected ***: rpm terminated > ======= Backtrace: ========= thank you for this report -- as JBJ watches this mailing list I am sure he'll see it > build-from-scratch only need a subdirectory called SRPMS > with source packages and ... > Build-from-scratch can be downloaded from: > http://c.dyndns.org/brian/pub/centos/5/tools/ > (it needs createrepo and httpd installed.) so, I take it to some degree you are making a 'new project' release announcement? > I hope the build order calculation function helps > accelerating the build process for the people who build > CentOS and packages for it. thank you. -- Russ herrold