Using "yum-builddep" misses packages that are in the RPMs ifdef conditionals
Issue
- By default,
yum-builddepmisses packages that are in conditionals. The yum-builddep command is documented to "install missing dependencies for building an RPM package", and it even goes so far to use the "kernel" package in its examples. However, yum-builddep misses packages in BuildRequires: lines that are in conditionals. For example, using the example command causes the subsequentrpmbuild -bb kernel.specto fail due to the following missed dependencies.
error: Failed build dependencies:
pesign >= 0.109-4 is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
elfutils-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
zlib-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
binutils-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
newt-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
python-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
perl(ExtUtils::Embed) is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
bison is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
audit-libs-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
numactl-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
pciutils-devel is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
gettext is needed by kernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.el7.x86_64
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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