On 22 February 2016 at 16:31, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, this is what I was suggesting. And the "How to create an RPM package" page should be updated to tell users to use mock.
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:02:45 +0000
Mat Booth <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Should we just delete that HOWTO page?
Really you should be using mock these days and it should tell you when
you don't have the right buildrequires present by failing until you add
them.
kevin
Yeah, this is what I was suggesting. And the "How to create an RPM package" page should be updated to tell users to use mock.
I think anyone can edit these pages (I don't believe they belong to the FPC.)
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