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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.

-- 
see shy jo



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