Ryan Wagoner writes: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:51 AM, <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Been recently more and more tempted to use mock for building rpms, but >> looking at it I have one problem. As far as I could read about it, mock >> essentially rebuilds srpms so to use it I would need a separate "classical" >> build environment to create those srpms in the first place. >> Am I right or did I get something terribly wrong? > > You can use rpmbuild -bs --nodeps to build the SRPM without the > dependency checking. The SRPM is just a compilation of the spec, > source code, and patches. > > Ryan Great tip, Ryan! Thank you.