Hi, The subject says it all. I'm currently fiddling with CentOS to become comfortable with it. Starting from a minimal system (everything unchecked during install), I wanted to have a reasonable set of build tools. Roughly the equivalent of Debian's 'apt-get install build-essential'. I tried yum groupinstall "Development Tools", which resulted in a total of 108 MB of packages... including the whole load of GNOME libs. Gasp! Is there any comprehensive list (in some forum or some WiKi) for everything necessary to build apps from source and/or build source RPMS? Cheers, Niki Kovacs -- Dyslexics have more fnu.
Daniel de Kok
2007-May-16 11:33 UTC
[CentOS] yum groupinstall "Development Tools" overkill
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:27 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:> Is there any comprehensive list (in some forum or some WiKi) for > everything necessary to build apps from source and/or build source RPMS?SRPMs normally have a BuildRequires field that specifies what build dependencies are required. When running rpmbuild, it wil exit if not all build dependencies are installed. yum-builddep from yum-utils will install all listed build dependencies given a source package. -- Daniel