[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Added option to rpmbuild to check the build dependencies (-bd, -td, -rd) (#876)

[Florian Festi]

Ok, opposite to what is discussed in #875 this patch does not the same thing as `rpmbuild -bb --nobuild`. The later does not execute `%generate_buildrequires` while this patch clearly tries to do that. In it's function it is very close to -br but does not build the srpm if no issue is encountered.
This is a legitimate use case that is currently covered by the cli. One can discuss whether this would be achieved with a new top level command or with a switch for -br.
Another issue is that there are actually 3 possible behaviours:

1. -br which builds an SRPM or a buildrequires.rpm on missing buildrequires
2. the suggested -bd which builds a buildrequires.rpm on missing buildrequires
3. don't build anything at all. only give an error message if needed.

Which asks the question whether case 3 should be dealt with, too, now that we are at it.


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