missing rpmbuild option?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/18/2009 02:55 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:20:04 -0400, Tom wrote:
> 
>> I often just want to look at the source for some tool, so I
>> download the source rpm, install it, then try to do a
>> rpmbuild -bp to get all the files unpacked and patched.
>>
>> This always fails because I'm missing a gazillion build
>> dependencies, but I'm not building :-).
>>
>> Is there (or should there be) a --nodeps option to
>> rpmbuild? 
> 
> Yes, there is.
> 
>> (I can't see anything like it in the man
>> page, but maybe I'm just blind :-).
> 
> It's not in the man page [for unknown reasons].

Filed a bug report at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512508

Rahul