On 22 February 2016 at 17:38, Corey Sheldon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kevin, et al. > > I am willing to help with the re-write but admittedly some of it will require a crash course for me. > > > On 02/22/2016 11:31 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:02:45 +0000 > Mat Booth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow, that "HOWTO" is a really old page -- not changed since being > imported from the old moin moin wiki. My feeling is that page should > be deleted and the "How to create an RPM package" page should be > updated. > > Here is the official guideline: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2 -- > basically, we just got out of the business of keeping track of what > the minimum buildroot contains. > > Should we just delete that HOWTO page? > > Really you should be using mock these days and it should tell you when > you don't have the right buildrequires present by failing until you add > them. > > kevin > >
Actually, I just went ahead and made the change: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_create_an_RPM_package&diff=435832&oldid=432092 Now it links to a document that tells you how test package builds using mock. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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