Yum and SRPMs

[Yuan Yijun]

2005/11/28, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>:
> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 20:43 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > What if include rpm-build in yum, like apt-build, or apt-get build
> > > > does? Maybe yum could become another emerge or pkg_add or so. :p
> > > 2 items:
> > > 1. why wouldn't we make a yum-devel that handles that sort of thing so
> > > we don't have one command with 25 thousand options?
> > > 2. We wouldn't want all that building going on as root so it'd be better
> > > if that command could do it as a user.
> >
> > Hmmm. I'm pretty sure the previous comment was meant as joking actually in
> > _support_ of your position. :)
>
> If someone wants to write it - more power to them.
>
> It won't be me, though. :)
>
> -sv

not me....

Well what mock can do? I'm going to try that. If the box lacks some
development package that is required by some SRPMS, could mock
download and install them automatically? I think this is more
annoying.

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