On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:
(aside) I'd like to add the closure check to rpmbuild, what stops me is that noone is willing to figger means to maintain the equivalent of a rpmdb-redhat package incrementally. Without that, it's premature to check for dependency closure in rpmbuild. So the immediate problem is to establish the need of creating a rpmdb-redhat database so that the tools necessary to do the job can start being written.
What are the problems with doing this with the justdb flag? It seems to me that you could do this automatically, based on the packages in rawhide say, though presumably it can't be that simple or it would already have been done.
Michael Young