firefox-0.8-0.fdr.2.src.rpm mach rebuild help

[Warren Togami]

Gavin Henry wrote:
>>>http://www.fedora.us/wiki/HOWTOFindMissingBuildRequires
>>>fedora.us Extras packages generally do not list any BuildRequires that
>>>are part of the minimal set as defined by this page.
>>>
>>>Add fedora-rpmdevtools to your minimal mach environment, and it will
>>>automatically pull in everything you need to build anything from
>>>fedora.us Extras.  Many Red Hat packages will fail, or produce
>>>unexpected results though, due to missing or wrong BuildRequires though.
>>>  We need to fix those eventually.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I will try this tomorrow, as I'm off to bed now. I thought you all 
> used mach to test rpm builds, or do you have standalone build machines with 
> no -devel rpm's installed, like your howto says. 
> 
> Gavin.
> 

The HOWTO says both mach and the less perfect "uninstall everything" 
method are both methods of finding BuildRequires.  The latter method is 
problematic for many reasons and mainly if you are too lazy to use mach.

The latter method is usually done with chroots and not a standalone system.

Warren