Changing deps on an rpm

Tim Seufert yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun May 4 22:05:01 2003


On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 04:41  PM, Aaron Hsu wrote:

> I need to change the dependencies on an rpm,but I don't know how, is
> there any way I can do this?

By rebuilding the RPM after altering its spec file.  Usually this is 
not a great idea, the dependencies are there for a reason.

If you just want to override RPM's dependency checking, use the 
--nodeps switch when installing.