On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:23 -0400, Tom Moertel wrote: > Looking ahead to that last step, how does the build system handle > weird > build-order requirements? Can the system, for example, infer from > BuildRequires statements that it must build and install the R-Matrix > package before it can try to build R-arm? (I couldn't find out how > Plague deals with dependencies from my search of the wiki.) Sortof. mock builds a chroot with all of the BuildRequires (and the Requires of those packages) installed, so if it is already built, it will be pulled in. If a BuildRequire isn't built yet (aka, not in the Fedora repository), that build will fail in the prep stage. ~spot
