On Sunday, November 15, 2020 3:10:03 PM WET Jason Edgecombe wrote:

> Hi everyone,

>

> I want to rebuild some of the fedora 33 packages for EL8 (vagrant, for

> example), but I'm having trouble getting all of the build dependencies

> right. I ran dnf to download the SRPMS with the --resolve option, but I'm

> still missing dependencies when I submit the builds to copr.

>

> My current workflow is to download an RPM from Fedora 33, then submit it to

> copr to build on the EPEL8 image in my personal COPR projects, waiting for

> any library errors, then download those and build, repeat as needed.

>

> That workflow is tedious and I feel like there must be a better way, but I

> don't know what that is. How can I recursively find all of the builddeps

> for packages?

>

> Ideally, I would like some type of (semi-)automated way to  track packages

> on Fedora and automatically build them on EL8, but I'm at a loss for how to

> do so.

>

> Thanks,

> Jason


IIRC to deal with dependencies Jens Petersen's fbrnch should help you do that:

https://github.com/juhp/fbrnch 


The package is available in copr:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/fbrnch/ 


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José Abílio