[packman] normalize rpm building problem

[Henne Vogelsang]

Hi,

On Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 13:02:21, Peter Czanik wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> 
> >You see thats one problem with simply using rpmbuild on your machine.
> >You most likely have xmms-devel installed from some other build,
> >configure detects it and builds the xmms plugin. The build becomes not
> >reproduceable...
> 
> I fully agree :-) My problem is, that when I used y2pmbuild for building 
> packages, it turned out, that I need to rebuild each package 10+ times to 
> fix BuildRequires and add missing dependencies, which I can only see from 
> the output of configure. AFAIR, audacity.spec does not have any 
> BuildRequires or Requires lines at all. When I flooded package maintainers 
> with BuildRequires lines a few months ago, to satisfy y2pmbuild, I was not 
> really welcome...

Hm thats sad. Missing BuildRequires are packaging bugs and should be
fixed.
 
> So, for now I stay with plain, stupid rpmbuild, even that brings out a lot 
> of problems... Bye,

Anyway, you have a login dont you (at least you appear in the packager
selection in the admin frontend)? Then you have access to the svn. Just
fix stuff there please.

Henne 

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