mharris(a)redhat.com ("Mike A. Harris") writes:
>One thing we have internally at Red Hat is a mass
>rebuild system that creates a buildroot with all packages installed,
>attempts rebuilds of all packages, and for the builds that succeed, it
>compares the resulting binary packages against the original ones to see if
>things like filelist or dependencies have changed. It'd be nice to get
>the equivalent of that for Fedora.
If someone were to develop a tool that compared consecutive
./configure runs and reported major differences,
That's not a problem... just run a diff across the 'config.status'
files. But what is with packages which do not use ./configure but have
other kinds of build-time feature-checks?
Comparing resulting packages seems to be a more universal way for
detecting missing BuildRequires:.
Enrico