On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 06:02:01PM +0200, Marián Konček wrote: > As many of you know, as packages change, so do their BuildRequires. > In the current state, maintaining them requires some manual work > from the maintainer. > > 1. So I got around the idea of a simple tool that checks file > accesses during the build and using RPM queries, detects whether > some package's files are not accessed at all therefore the package > is not needed for the build. To my knowledge there is no such > project. The project is here: https://github.com/mkoncek/unbreq For completeness, this is a tool I wrote a hundred years ago that does the opposite: https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/ Rich. > It may not be completely reliable, but it also may be good enough to > catch simple mistakes. > > 2. At least in the case of maven build system, this tool does not > help with `mvn(foo:bar)` dependencies, as maven unconditionally > reads all the files present in /usr/share/maven-metadata, from which > it deduces the associations between jars and artifact coordinates. I > imagine other build systems employ a similar strategy. > > 3. In the case of maven, we have a manual tool: xmvn-builddep, which > reads the build.log and constructs the actual BuildRequires from it, > using knowledge about the build procedure. This could be used as an > additional step of this tool, having similar tools for other > languages. > > Ultimately, I am interested in the possibility of having automated > unused BuildRequires detection as part of rpmbuild / mockbuild. > > -- > Marián Konček > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
