Fedora 21 was EOL'd a month ago, and I don't believe the yum-builddep commands work without the source rpms either. So the Old Fedora section probably could go away.

If a patch of mine to the dnf project is approved, and if a source repo is added along-side the winehq binary repo, then perhaps the dnf builddep command can eventually replace that lengthy dnf install command.

One more question: where is the Fedora spec file used for creating the winehq binary packages. That should be available somewhere, but I haven't found it.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio@earthlink.net> wrote:

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 01:49:40 -0600
Jeffrey Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com> wrote:

> For the builddep commands in http://wiki.winehq.org/Fedora to work as
> intended, there needs to be a repository containing the source rpms. The
> binary rpms do NOT provide the _build_ dependency information needed for
> the builddep commands to do their job.
>
> Otherwise, the instructions need to be redone, as the builddep commands are
> not really doing anything useful as things stand.
>

I assume you mean the line about using dnf builddep to install the build dependencies on Fedora 22 and later. I've removed that. I've left the command from Zhenbo Li, because AFAIK it should install everything listed, and all those things are needed, but I'm not sure the list includes everything needed. The original wording on that page suggested that it was needed in addition to running dnf builddep. Hence the "This section is incomplete" note I've also added; someone who uses Fedora will need to expand that section, or tell me what to add.

Is there any point in keeping the Old Fedora section on that page?

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Rosanne DiMesio
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