On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:48:12PM -0500, Sadda Teh wrote: > 1. Download src rpms and dependent libraries required for successfully > rebuilding the requested source download(s) > 2. Extract the the source tarball to some standard location so the developer > can cd to that dir and be able to immediately do a ./configure && make > without errors Why do you assume that there's a source tarball at all? I think if you'll look at what's inside a lot of source RPMs, you'll find your #2 is a lot harder than you think. #1 is also harder than it may appear at first glance. However, there's been some good work at addressing it. Check out "mock": <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock> But for #1: what you want is "mock". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
