[Yum-devel] Re: YumIdeas

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, seth vidal wrote:

> 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?

Is there a mailing list/web page for this?? Google does not seem to be giving me
info on this. Of course I could just ne using the wrong search. "-(

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com