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Bug 67

Summary:	Change request: add a "BuildRequires" field
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.1
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Description Aleksey Nogin 1998-11-14 16:15:53 UTC

I beleive it would be very helpful if RPM would allow
specifying "BuildRequires" field in a SPEC file that would
describe the programs necessary to compile this package.
That would give an easy way to specify that a package have
to be built using some specific version of gcc or some
specific version of some *-devel package.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-02-18 15:23:59 UTC

BuildPrereq is in the process of being added to rpm-2.9x.