Re: using "--nodeps" with rpmbuild is it possible?

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:43:50PM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:

> --nodeps is only used at install time (not build time), to work around
> a package that has dependencies that you want to ignore.

Just for completeness: --nodeps *can* be specified with rpmbuild, but
then it means that the build requirements (BuildRequires header lines)
should be ignored.  In most cases not very useful, except when you
only want to build a source rpm (rpmbuild -bs).

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