On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 18:20 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Tom 'spot' Callaway (tcallawa(a)redhat.com) said:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 18:02 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >Tom 'spot' Callaway (tcallawa(a)redhat.com) said:
> >> If our buildroots don't have it, then thats a serious failure (its in
> >> System Environment/Base).
> >
> >Well, you'd still want it to get pulled in via a dep somehow. Right
> >now that would be via initscripts, which may or may not be in
> >the build dependency chain.
>
> So basically, its not safe to assume any of System Environment/Base is
> installed?
>
> Should all packages start having bash, coreutils, grep, etc, etc as
> BuildRequires: ?
There should be a stock list on the wiki somewhere; you can assume
coreutils, gcc, make, etc., and whatever those pull in. Whether or
not that means they'd pull in initscripts, I don't know.
coreutils requires pam, which requires initscripts. Kevin Bacon is in
there somewhere too, but it means we don't need BuildRequires:
redhat-release.
~spot
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