builddep.rst

DNF builddep Plugin

Install whatever is needed to build the given .src.rpm, .nosrc.rpm or .spec file.

Warning

Build dependencies in a package (i.e. src.rpm) might be different than you would expect because they were evaluated according macros set on the package build host.

Synopsis

dnf builddep <package>...

Arguments

<package>

Either path to .src.rpm, .nosrc.rpm or .spec file or package available in a repository.

Options

--help-cmd

Show this help.

-D <macro expr>, --define <macro expr>

Define the RPM macro named macro to the value expr when parsing spec files.

--spec

Treat arguments as .spec files.

--srpm

Treat arguments as source rpm files.

Examples

dnf builddep foobar.spec

Install the needed build requirements, defined in the foobar.spec file.

dnf builddep --spec foobar.spec.in

Install the needed build requirements, defined in the spec file when filename ends with something different than .spec.

dnf builddep foobar-1.0-1.src.rpm

Install the needed build requirements, defined in the foobar-1.0-1.src.rpm file.

dnf builddep foobar-1.0-1

Look up foobar-1.0-1 in enabled repositories and install build requirements for its source rpm.

dnf builddep -D 'scl python27' python-foobar.spec

Install the needed build requirements for the python27 SCL version of python-foobar.