[Mailman-Users] Has anyone successfully installed Mailman

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:45 PM -0500 Matthew Saltzman
> <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> No, build prerequisites are checked at build time, not unpacking time. Note
> that you can do both with one command, "rpmbuild --rebuild xxx.src.rpm".
> But if you just want to unpack it, use "rpm -i xxx.src.rpm" and it won't
> check the build prereqs. You can then unpack the tarball or inspect the
> spec file and patches and other support files included in the SRPM.

Ah, makes sense.  Thanks for the correction.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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