On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
As packages age sometimes build requirements chance and may not be caught
by the package maintainer. Is there a known way of determining if there are
unnecessary build requirements in a package?
Yes, using auto-buildrequires:
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
I've always thought it would be super great to make a distinction of
BuildRequires, and things required to perform build tests... say
TestRequires.
Stepping through the BRs is probably not enough, tests could also be
disabled through this process.
Say for example perl or python scripts are used to
On Ter, 2014-05-13 at 15:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ville Skyttä ville.sky...@iki.fi
wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw
hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote:
I would think you would need to step through the BR:'s get
As packages age sometimes build requirements chance and may not be caught
by the package maintainer. Is there a known way of determining if there are
unnecessary build requirements in a package?
I would think you would need to step through the BR:'s get the capabilities
of the packages that the
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com 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
Am 13.05.2014 18:23, schrieb Ville Skyttä:
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com 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
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ville Skyttä ville.sky...@iki.fi wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com
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
