[Yum-devel] YumIdeas

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:25 -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> How about a build dependency install option?  I find myself building
> packages pretty often and I would like to run one command like the
> following:
> 
>    yum builddep mpich
> 
> Which would install gcc, make, and XFree86-devel.  I find this option
> really helpful on debian systems.  Eventually this could be expanded out
> to allow something like pbuilder.  pbuilder is useful as it "constructs
> a chroot system, and builds a package inside the chroot. It is an ideal
> system to use to check that a package has correct build-dependencies."

umm you know about yum-utils, right?

and for the chroot side - have you seen/heard of mock?


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