On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > 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 well ... *that* was an embarrassingly easy solution to all of this. argh. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
