Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% 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).

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