On 22 February 2016 at 10:54, Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > RWMJ> Is that new? > > > > Not really. The change relating to what's in the buildroot was made > > about nine months ago: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/497 > > I created my first COPR over this weekend. I worked according to: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package > because that is linked heavily from other pages and also was the first > google result for fedora rpm packaging. > > However, under > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#SPEC_file_overview > it says: > > BuildRequires: ... Some common packages can be omitted, such as gcc. > and links to here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HOWTOFindMissingBuildRequires#Exceptions > > If that's no longer true, somebody who knows what he's doing should adjust > that, because that wiki page is likely the most visible rpm tutorial for > Fedora. >
Wow, that "HOWTO" is a really old page -- not changed since being imported from the old moin moin wiki. My feeling is that page should be deleted and the "How to create an RPM package" page should be updated. Here is the official guideline: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2 -- basically, we just got out of the business of keeping track of what the minimum buildroot contains. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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