Conner Finlay wrote:
Paul,
Wouldn't BuildRequires: be pretty much the same thing as doing a manual
yum install of the package, then building the spec file?
Yes; that's the way dependencies are done. The spec file contains the
dependency information and it's up to the user how to satisfy that
dependency.
Given that packages should be built as non-root users for security
reasons, nothing in the spec file that attempted to download and install
dependencies on to the system (and in particular, into the rpm database)
would work anyway due to permissions.
Paul.
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