On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:11 AM -0500 Matthew Saltzman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > you can't install the source RPM for rebuilding without the
> > python-devel 2.2 package.
>
> Quibble: You can't *build* the source RPM without the devel package. You
> can install it, which basically amounts to unpacking it into spec file,
> tarball, and patches.

Haven't actually tried it, but won't rpm complain about the missing
python-devel package when you attempt to install the SRPM?  Seems like
that would be what dependencies in SRPMs are for.

-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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