Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 09/09/2007 04:33 PM +9:00:
i wanted to poke around the mkinird source rpm so i downloaded it
and installed it, and then went to "prep" it via its .spec file:
$ rpmbuild -bp mkinitrd.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
parted-devel >= 1.8.5 is needed by mkinitrd-6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
libdhcp4client-devel is needed by mkinitrd-6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
libdhcp6client-devel is needed by mkinitrd-6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
libdhcp-devel >= 1.9 is needed by mkinitrd-6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
device-mapper-devel is needed by mkinitrd-6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
$
i'm confused -- why would a source rpm have dependencies for doing a
simple prep? for actual building perhaps, but doesn't prepping
involve simply unloading the tarball and applying the patches?
try:
rpmbuild -bp --nodeps foo.spec
Regards,
Mamoru Tasaka
