Re: Are commas allowed in BuildRequires ?

[Marwan Rabbâa <waghanza@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have actually spec that specified BuildRequires with separated spaces ?

2017-12-07 10:42 GMT+01:00 Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On 07/12/17 09:29, Marwan Rabbâa wrote:

I am creating a tool to automate RPM build process (at least reduce maintenance process).

I have found a wonderful (for my tests) RPM spec => http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/git.git/tree/git.spec

According to section 10.1 in http://rpm5.org/docs/rpm-guide.pdf commas are not allowed in BuildRequires, but I have found

Note that rpm5.org describes a fork of rpm and not the version used in Fedora.

They're certainly not necessary - a space works fine to separate multiple dependencies on the same line. A quick test suggests that they seem to be allowed, in the sense of basically being ignored and not affecting what dependencies are created in the src.rpm.

Tom

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