On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alex Bennee wrote: > Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a > warning before it starts building.
I understand what you're saying, but how much should it check? The source package was targeted to a RedHat distribution. It will need to make some assumptions about how the machine is configured and what directories are available. RPM does check that appropriate dependencies are satisfied and with the appropriate scripts, can check for disk space, users, hostnames, etc.. But I don't believe RedHat should check that it installs correctly on Mandrake or Suse, just as I don't expect Mandrake packages to build and install cleanly on other distros. > > Alternativly you can install the source rpm and do a "rpm -bp > specfile.spec" and build from the tarball as per normal. >
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