[Yum-devel] Re: YumIdeas

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 18:48 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> 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. "-(
> 

yum-utils? just here and the yum list.

mock? not really - fedora-buildsys-list - sorta.

-sv