On Jul 05 12:37, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > The information that pyrpkg is needed for using centpkg.py is in the > > readme on the git.centos.org site in the centpkg repo. > > Yes, listed as "root# <Install and configure EPEL-Release>". For one > thing, the package is actually named 'epel-release'. > > May I recommend instead: > > "root# <Download and configure relevant epel-release RPM>" > > I'd submit it at bugs.centos.org, but there isn't a category there yet > for 'centpkg' or for 'centos-git-common' I'll put this in with my next documentation patch. For future reference centpkg is a category in the Buildsys project on bugs.c.o > > Until then, if someone is not smart enough to figure out how to make > > centpkg to work with git.centos.org because they can't find a python > > dep, then they likely should not be trying to build packages from git in > > the first place. > > Oh, boy. That way lies madness, because "finding a python dependency" > is like "finding a perl dependency". Let's be nice to the newbies. Not > all of them have had the opportunity to explore mock and EPEL as > thoroughly as us, and the newly published build system has a steep > enough learning curve. > Do note, centpkg is very very new (hence the PRE-ALPHA notice in the README) and probably isn't quite ready for training newbies yet. The target audience, until we can stabilize a few things, is developers who can stand a few rough edges while we work on smoothing them out. Brian -- Brian Stinson bstinson at ksu.edu | IRC: bstinson | Bitbucket/Twitter: bstinsonmhk