[Mageia-dev] A question about BuildRequires and other RPM questions.

Thu Feb 28 12:55:49 CET 2013

I'm having a go at building an RPM. I have managed to compile this 
+particular piece of software on my laptop under Open SuSE, but would 
+like to compile on my desktop and thought it would be a really good idea 
+to finally have a proper go at building RPMs.
+
+So, I'm ploughing through the tutorials and one thing I can't work out 
+is just how to comprehensively list all the BuildRequires. I seem to 
+remember when I compiled it on SuSE it had a couple of dependencies such 
+as boot-devel and I suppose I could compile it on my machine and see 
+what  it requests, but I assume that is no good if another machine tries 
+to install the RPM and I don't list one of the dependencies because it 
+happened to be installed on my machine.
+
+Make sense?!
+
+So, how do I make a list of that please?
+
+Also, I tried taking kwrite as an example, downloaded the .src RPM from 
+a website (couldn't work out the wget thing) and managed to "blindly" 
+build the RPM. That lists as shed load of files, mostly libraries that 
+are needed. Again, how do I find these for this particular package? Do I 
+need to compile first and use a tool that extracts all this information 
+somehow?
+
+I'm wondering whether there's a very simple, hello world find of spec 
+file somewhere I could look at. I'm not convinced kwrite was the best 
+example to take.
+
+Thanks.
+
+