On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:47:33 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > if someone wants to simply RTFS, it's a bit disconcerting to learn > > that you need to download another five source rpms to do it. > > I don't know if this is useful in your situation, but I'm pretty > sure File Roller can "look inside" of srpm files and extract the > contents for you as desired. that might come in handy, but it still doesn't solve the fundamental problem of why a source rpm's "BuildRequires" value should affect the simple tarball extraction and patch application operation. just for fun, i edited mkinitrd's spec file and deleted all the "BuildRequires" lines, and the build prep worked just fine, so i'm convinced that a simple prep should be possible without taking the BuildRequires dependencies into account. now i just want an option that implements that. well ... what are you just sitting there for? get to work. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
