On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Adam Jackson wrote:
Yes. People hit this _constantly_ in a lot of ways. Like "why am I not getting debuginfo packages". The theory is that you might want to build with some other set of macros, which is why rpmbuild doesn't just require r-r-c. I think this is foolish, and that we should just fix rpmbuild: if you wanted some other set of macros, start by rebuilding rpm to require something other than r-r-c. The counter-argument is - and I find this completely baffling - that it's easier to replace packages than rebuild them, so that instead rpmbuild should Require: system-rpm-config and then r-r-c happens to be what provides that by default. Which, sure, that's also a thing we could do. Either solution would be better than what we have.
Agreed, and said so in the past. I had to add it as buildrequires: to libreswan. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
