On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Bryan Stillwell wrote: > I was wondering why you need all BuildRequires items to do a build of > the spec file to an SRPM? > > Example: > $ rpmbuild -bs dsh.spec > error: Failed build dependencies: > perl-TermReadLineGnu is needed by dsh-2.0.1-aspen1 > > > I understand why the BuildRequires are important in the first place > (that's why I put them in there), but I don't see a reason to require > them to build just the SRPM. Yeah, it's a bit silly when creating just an src.rpm. > > Is there something I can put in my ~/.rpmmacros file to disable this > requirement? Or could the --nodeps option be added to rpmbuild? You obviously didn't actually try using --nodeps with rpmbuild :) - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
