Re: Getting dependencies from spec files

[Eli Carter <eli carter inet com>]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Eli Carter wrote:
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > Is there a way to get rpmbuild to display the BuildPreReqs given a spec 
> > file, but without initiating a build?
> > And then, what about PreReqs and Requires?
>
>
> Not really. To some extent you can get PreReqs and Requires out of a spec 
> with 'rpm -q --specfile --requires foo.spec' but that (obviously) doesn't 
> include automatically generated dependencies and for build dependencies I 
> don't think there's a way to get that out of a spec file.
>
> That said, "mach" does exactly that by parsing the spec manually, if you 
> wish you could extract the relevant code from there... 
> http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/

Well, for what I'm doing, I can live with
grep -i -e '^[[:space:]]*BuildPreReq' $SRCDIR/$package/$package.spec | 
sed 's/.*://' | sed 's/,/ /g

It just gets false positives when there's a %ifdef around a Buildprereq.

Thanks for the pointer to "mach"... I'll have to look into that another 
time.

Eli
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