On Thursday 19 October 2006 14:47, David Lutterkort wrote: > Hi all, > > I just noticed that http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/ now > has buildgroups for RHEL; alas, at least for RHEL4, they are broken. > > When trying to use them, I ran into two problems: > 1. the buildsys-build rpm does not pull in python; that's actually > two problems: > A. rpmbuild complains that 'el' is not a valid macro name, > and ignores the conditionals in the specfile that should > add a dependency on python, (filed as bz#211511) > B. the buildsys site has old RPM's. Who maintains that ? > 2. buildsys-macros depends on rpmdevtools, which does not exist for > RHEL. A patch against the specfile from [1] is attached; it > removes the use of rpmdevtools completely. Where are the > specfiles for buildsys-macros maintained ? Couldn't find them in > CVS. as part of EPEL my intention was to put a rpmdevtools package in in the buildroot first then build it in the buildsys. you should be able to get around this by putting rpmdevtools into your repo and everything else should work. Dennis -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
