Re: Fetching and building dependencies automatically

[Frank Cusack <fcusack fcusack com>]

On March 9, 2007 10:19:53 AM +0000 Brian Candler <B Candler pobox com> 
wrote:
> So in a bit more detail, what I want is:
>
> 1. I ask it to build package X (like 'rpmbuild -bb package-X.spec')
>
> 2. It automatically downloads the source tarball and patches into the
>    SOURCES directory, using the URL(s) in the spec file
>
> 3. It installs all "BuildRequires" packages (and in turn any "Requires"
>    packages of those packages)
>
> 4. It builds.

5. Restore system to previous state (remove BRs that weren't installed
  before step 3).

This is critical to reproducible builds, in the general case.

-frank