Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?
Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> jh> Quelle strange. rpm wants a rpm database just to apply patches to a
> jh> build tree? It must be on drugs. Maybe it wants to do source dependancy
> jh> checking though. Does --nodeps help?
>
> Ah. That did it. Thanks.
>
> jh> Could you send me the srpm in question? I'll see if I can fix
> jh> this.
>
> It was the kernel-2.4.2-2.src.rpm, straight from the Red Hat download (I
> got it from rpmfind.net).
Ok, I guess this source rpm dep checking thing is by design and (kinda)
a feature. I've added a note to README.Debian.
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see shy jo
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