rpmbuild -bp and BR:

[Jos Vos]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0600, Lamont Peterson wrote:

> Just wondering why running "rpmbuild -bp" fails if I don't have all the BR:'s
> installed.  I don't really need them in this case, as I'm not going to be
> running ./configure or the compile.

Use --nodeps if you want to do -bp and don't want to be bothered by
the BR's.  IMHO, it is ok that all (but one (*)) rpmbuild commands
check for the BR's, as you can override this during development (even
by commenting out the BR's).

(*)  Even rpmbuild -bs (only built src.rpm) fails whne the BR's are
     not satisfied (or has this been fixed now?).  This is useless.

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