From: Jeff Johnson $lt;jbj at redhat.com>
Reply-To: rpm-list at redhat.com
To: rpm-list at redhat.com
Subject: rh-rpm] Re: Make rpmbuild _not_ do automatic dependancies.

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:37:27PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I'm building some rpms, and in the Requires: section, I have some
> packages listed, with > $version so that later releases can use this
> package. The problem is that once the binary rpm is built, it adds
> some actual file dependencies, which are resolved by the previously
> listed packages. Is there any way to keep RPMBUILD from listing BOTH the
> packages AND the files?
>

Add
%define __find_requires %{nil}
to your spec file.

73 de Jeff

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A few days later this crossed the mailing list:

Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:08:50 +0300 (EEST)
From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at welho.com>
...
> Add
> %define __find_requires %{nil}
> to your spec file.

Maybe it's just me but I find "AutoReq: 0" a bit more readable :)

--
- Panu -

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With the point being, there is more than one way to do it -- oops -- Is TIMTOWTDI copyrighted by the perl folks? <smile>

-- Russ Herrold, Editor

See also: Unpackaged files terminates rpmbuild