Bug 283901
| Summary: | "rpmbuild" should have an option for a simple untar and patch operation | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | pnasrat |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-09-09 13:40:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
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never mind, the "--nodeps" option was just pointed out to me. |
For people who simply want to "read the fine source," it would be nice if "rpmbuild" supported an option to do nothing more than untar the source and apply the patches for a given spec file. As it stands, the currently minimal "prep" step ("-bp") insists on processing all the "BuildRequires" values and complaining about missing source rpms that would be necessary for a *build*. But if you just want to look at the source, none of that should be relevant. What about a new rpmbuild option such as "-bu", representing a simple "untar and patch", so people who are told to go read the source can do exactly that without having to deal with the grief inflicted by irrelevant BuildRequires dependencies?