Bug 1099

Summary:	more specialized BuildRequires
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	imz <vanyaz>
Component:	rpm-utils	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	at, glebfm, ldv, mike, placeholder, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description imz 2002-07-15 12:36:03 MSD

According to <a href="file:///usr/share/doc/rpm-4.0.4/apidocs/tsort.html">file:///usr/share/doc/rpm-4.0.4/apidocs/tsort.html</a>
rpm allows BuildRequires-specialization for sections. I suggest to use it in the output of buildreq.

I have a reason for this: now, when BuildRequires are not specialized, rpmbuild often doesn\'t want to proceed with some action like \&quot;--clean\&quot; because some of the BuildRequires are not there. This is inconvenient because in most cases the packages listed in BuildRequires are not really required for %clean or a certain other action.

I suggest that buildreq generates three kinds of build-dependencies:

first, it traces something like \'rpmbuild -bE\' and sees what is required to preprocess the spec; these dependencies are written as BuildPreReq. Then it traces %prep and writes BuildRequires(prep) and then it traces %build and writes BuiildRequires(build).

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Comment 1 Michael Shigorin 2010-10-09 19:01:36 MSD

Isn't it better to fix --clean?  The thing is, rpmbuild -bs usually won't need BuildRequires either (might need BuildPreReq though) and still one would cope with --nodeps just to wrap up an srpm.