Re: A usefull tool (Was: Making Fedora Core CD #1 Standalone)

[Chris Chabot <chabotc 4-ice com>]

Ahh good point.. Fortunatly by including 'all the -devels' 98% is covered.. What's probably missing from the list are things like doxygen (i dont think anything requires it, but i know apr/httpd forinstance do buildrequire it). But as i said, i think most of it is in there.

I think you might've just inspired me to expand my script to pull in .spec's too..

.. Just brainstorming here, easiest way to get the .spec file for installed packages would probably be to:

source_pkg = `rpm -q <package> -qf "%{SOURCERPM}"`
spec_file      = `rpm -qpl /path/to/$source_pkg | grep ".spec"`
rpm2cpio $source_pkg | cpio -iv $spec_file

    -- Chris

Jeremy Katz wrote:

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:06 +0200, Chris Chabot wrote:
  

-d             Include the *-devel packages for all packages in the list 
(and it's dependencies). This is includes because i am a big fan of 
having a system that could build it's self, it's updates and any other 
source rpm's/tarbals you would download.
    

Unfortunately, this doesn't tell you what you need to build.  For that,
you need src.rpms and to analyze the BuildRequires (since BuildRequires
only show up as a Requires on a src.rpm)

Cheers,

Jeremy