buildreq

[Todd Zullinger]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>$ sudo yum-builddep coreutils
>>Setting up repositories
>>Error: No Package Matching coreutils.src
> 
> This is not how you use it. You should run it against the downloaded 
> SRPM. Works fine in FC6 which I am using now.

Thanks Rahul.  The documentation is outdated or just plain wrong then.

The manpage says:

DESCRIPTION
       yum-builddep  is  a  program  which installs the RPMs needed to
       build the specified package.  The source RPM for the specified
       package must be available in the Yum repository or it can be a
       local source RPM file.


EXAMPLES
       Download and install all the RPMs needed to build the kernel
       RPM:
              yum-builddep kernel

It used to work this way and there's still code in the package that
tries to operated on package names, but fails.

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