On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:20:04 -0400, Tom wrote: > I often just want to look at the source for some tool, so I > download the source rpm, install it, then try to do a > rpmbuild -bp to get all the files unpacked and patched. > > This always fails because I'm missing a gazillion build > dependencies, but I'm not building :-). > > Is there (or should there be) a --nodeps option to > rpmbuild? Yes, there is. > (I can't see anything like it in the man > page, but maybe I'm just blind :-). It's not in the man page [for unknown reasons]. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines