Bug 1109811 - RFE: builddep should not require SRPM
Summary: RFE: builddep should not require SRPM
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1074585
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf-plugins-core
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-06-16 12:07 UTC by drago01
Modified: 2014-06-23 07:43 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-06-23 07:43:37 UTC
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Description drago01 2014-06-16 12:07:32 UTC
Description of problem:

To quote myself from the recent ml discussion: 

Well you assume that buildep is only used to build packages. But if
you want to build the upstream source of a package for any reason
having a command that installs required packages is handy.

For instance if I want to build "foo" to write / test a patch I do
"yum-builddep foo" "jhbuild buildone foo" ... I have the code, can
hack on it, can build it without messing with deps and do not have to
build a package (development does not always mean "packing").


i.e it should work like yum where having a srpm / spec file is not required.

Comment 1 Jared Smith 2014-06-16 12:43:08 UTC
I too think this is an oversight -- I used yum-builddep all the time to install the build dependencies for an upstream package that I'll be building from source (and not from a spec file).  I agree that the builddep plugin for DNF should *not* require an SRPM or spec file.

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2014-06-17 05:11:32 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905697#c19 onwards, its not an oversight.

Comment 3 Ales Kozumplik 2014-06-23 07:43:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1074585 ***


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