On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:57:00AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > * It might be interesting to have some script, which tries to audit > > BR, e.g. it removes all BR first and then adds them back as they are > > required. This could reveal some BR which are actually not needed > > anymore, but are listed among BR from historic reasons. > > This is kind of hard to do without extensive functional tests, because it > may be that a BR was added because the build completes happily without it > but misses the related functionality. (This is pretty common, I think.)
auto-buildrequires (http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/) uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to find out what BuildRequires are packages are actually touched during the build. Therefore it does not suffer from this problem. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
