On 11/15/06, Igor Pasemnik <ipasemnik liquidcomputing com> wrote:
I assume you want to satisfy some requires from some other packages, although you mentioned without rpm and/or creating one, here is how easy it is to bypass using --nodeps and satisfy whatever requirements that other package has, assuming you really want to bypass the requirements, here is a minimal spec file, say something like dummy.spec, build it as root or non-root with the following stanza:
I was making this really hard. This is a much easier solution. Hmmm...some times you have to with their problem rather than the question they asked. Yeah, and one could with a little creativity wrap this up in a simple shell script that creates the package on the fly and installs, so this user could have: addRPMEntry some_silly_requirement Cheers...james