On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > <snip> > > <Rant> > > Building an RPM should NOT be dependent upon noncritical issues like documents > > or other nonintegral froo-froo. Perhaps Mandrake could FIX Redhat's broken > > RPM by making it more fault tolerant so that rpm builds can be completed > > inspite of missing or failing a noncritical portion (like doc generation)?! > > </Rant> > > I dunno if I can agree with that. One thing I like about RPM is that > it makes it easy to reproduce an identical package from the SRC rpm. If > it continued then there's too much room for error when publishing an > RPM.
Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a warning before it starts building. Alternativly you can install the source rpm and do a "rpm -bp specfile.spec" and build from the tarball as per normal. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer
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