Old fedora.us and our current Extras packaging guidelines tell folks to test their builds against the minimum build environment pulled in by the artifical deps of the fedora-rpmdevtools package. You could just use fedora-rpmdevtools as the base package instead of creating yet another package to pull in minimum buildroot deps.
We'd need a fair bit more stuff than is in fedora-rpmdevtools: - createrepo, buildsys-macros, python, rpm-python,
take a look at the contents of this file: http://fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/4/i386/buildroots.xml
that's what we need and that's a bit of a problem for fedora-rpmdevtools.
Note that we made an explicit decision NOT to include auto* as base deps in fedora-rpmdevtools. This is because different packages may require specific versions of autoconf or automake.
right and in the buildroots.xml we include all the automakes and autoconf.
I think we'd be better off with NOT confusing the purposes of fedora-rpmdevtools package and the mock build packages, not to mention that I'd like to make sure this is written so it can be used for !fedora distributions, too.
I know I'm not using mock just for building fedora-based things; I'm sure others aren't either.
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