missing rpmbuild option?
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 09:25:22 UTC 2009
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].
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