[Rpm-maint] [wish] src.rpm management

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Fri Jan 30 06:45:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:55:35AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:48 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:46 +0100, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > >   Not a big issue, however odd -- rpm can install source rpm file, but 
> > > it cannot list it or uninstall, user has to to it manually.
> > 
> > While you cannot list it, it is possible to "uninstall" it (using the
> > spec file):
> > 
> > rpmbuild --rmsource --rmspec nameof.spec
> > 
> 
> and you probably want to throw a --nodeps in there, too.
> 
> -sv

--nodeps won't be needed any more as soon as upstream rpm hits fedora:

http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commit;h=e58db2eda1609a8b48d8248390a2d87ff99fdd6d
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452477

Jindrich

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