On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, David Timms wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > ... > > > > 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. > Do you want to close the bug as well - WORKSFORME ? done. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================