Michael Brown wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
>
>>But, the main problem is that the BuildRequires aren't accurate at the
>>moment in cooker. Without the correct BuilRequires you're going to
>>encounter many compile problems. I'm working on fixing them at the
>>moment, but There are still +/- 380 packages that aren't compiling....
>>
>
>How are you detecting problems caused by 'non-fatal' missing
>BuildRequires? As an example: the recent missing requirement for
>libbzip2_1-devel and libtiff3-devel in kdelibs. If these are not
>installed then the package will be built without support for the relevant
>components, but no errors will be flagged. Is there any way to
>automatically detect this sort of omission?
>
This is one of the tough ones and I don't know how to solve it... But
perhaps we could compare the Provides and Requires of the resulting
package against a known (cooker) package.
Stefan
