Build system ideas/requirements

[Enrico Scholz]

mharris at redhat.com ("Mike A. Harris") writes:

>>One thing we have internally at Red Hat is a mass
>>rebuild system that creates a buildroot with all packages installed,
>>attempts rebuilds of all packages, and for the builds that succeed, it
>>compares the resulting binary packages against the original ones to see if
>>things like filelist or dependencies have changed.  It'd be nice to get
>>the equivalent of that for Fedora.
>
> If someone were to develop a tool that compared consecutive
> ./configure runs and reported major differences,

That's not a problem... just run a diff across the 'config.status'
files. But what is with packages which do not use ./configure but have
other kinds of build-time feature-checks?

Comparing resulting packages seems to be a more universal way for
detecting missing BuildRequires:.



Enrico
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