On Tue, 13 May 2014 19:23:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I would think you would need to step through the BR:'s get the capabilities > > of the packages that the -devel package pull in, and then check that against > > the requires of the resultant packages. > > BR's don't always map/result into any dependencies in binary packages.
True. That makes them interesting though. ;-) Even more interesting than superfluous/unneeded BR. There are packages that specify BR intentionally, but the build process doesn't find the specified stuff and doesn't fail either. As a result, some feature is missing. Or an executable is missing that doesn't make the spec file fail either because of '*' wildcards in the %files list. Work-arounds? Check that a configure script would fail when explicitly requesting a feature with a --enablefoo or --with-foo options. Add guards to the spec file more often than not. E.g. grep configure script output, examine files in the buildroot, add file-existance checks in the %check section if not in the %files list. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
