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Bug 1056802

Summary:	shared-mime-info is missing BuildRequires: gcc
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Kay Williams <kay>
Component:	shared-mime-info	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	6.5	CC:	tpelka
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Description Kay Williams 2014-01-22 23:27:16 UTC

Description of problem:
Missing 'BuildRequires: gcc' in Specfile.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.70-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Attempt to build without having gcc installed. :-)  
(We create a minimal environment for building rpms to keep things clean.)

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-27 08:59:59 UTC

This is part of the build essentials you need installed on your system before compiling packages.

If you want to "keep things clean" I would suggest that you use something like "mock" which will setup the compilation environment in such a way that it will not conflict or interact with your runtime environment.

See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds

Comment 3 Kay Williams 2014-01-27 16:38:23 UTC

Actually, I am using an alternative to mock, but our solution assumes that required packages are listed in the srpm.

I can add gcc to our solution, but I would hope to address this in a reliable way. Is there formal list of 'build essential' packages somewhere, or (even better) a meta package we can install that brings these in (not mock as it is overkill)? Perhaps the rpm-build package should list essentials?

Thanks for your help.

Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-28 09:43:43 UTC

mock (or at least mock in koji) uses a custom yum group call @build to install the minimal deps.

This is the list of packages from an install:
DEBUG util.py:281:  Installing for group install "build":
DEBUG util.py:281:   bash                         x86_64    4.2.45-2.el7             build    996 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   bzip2                        x86_64    1.0.6-8.el7              build     52 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   coreutils                    x86_64    8.21-13.el7              build    3.3 M
DEBUG util.py:281:   cpio                         x86_64    2.11-20.el7              build    209 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   diffutils                    x86_64    3.3-2.el7                build    321 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   epel-release                 noarch    7-0.1                    build     12 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   findutils                    x86_64    1:4.5.11-1.el7           build    559 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   gawk                         x86_64    4.0.2-2.el7              build    866 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   gcc                          x86_64    4.8.2-3.el7              build     16 M
DEBUG util.py:281:   gcc-c++                      x86_64    4.8.2-3.el7              build    7.1 M
DEBUG util.py:281:   grep                         x86_64    2.14-4.el7               build    330 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   gzip                         x86_64    1.5-4.el7                build    128 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   info                         x86_64    5.1-1.el7                build    232 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   make                         x86_64    1:3.82-19.el7            build    419 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   patch                        x86_64    2.7.1-6.el7              build    109 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   redhat-release-everything    x86_64    7.0-0.6.el7              build     23 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   redhat-rpm-config            noarch    9.1.0-56.el7             build     75 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   rpm-build                    x86_64    4.11.1-9.el7             build    139 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   sed                          x86_64    4.2.2-2.el7              build    230 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   shadow-utils                 x86_64    2:4.1.5.1-9.el7          build    1.1 M
DEBUG util.py:281:   tar                          x86_64    2:1.26-26.el7            build    842 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   unzip                        x86_64    6.0-11.el7               build    166 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   which                        x86_64    2.20-5.el7               build     41 k
DEBUG util.py:281:   xz                           x86_64    5.1.2-5alpha.el7         build    199 k

A whole bunch of others are installed as dependency.

Comment 5 Kay Williams 2014-01-28 15:47:42 UTC

Got it. Thanks again.