If I removed some dependencies from a src.rpm spec, would it work?

[Rodayo]

So the spec file I'm working with has a bunch of fields like:

BuildRequires: ....

Some of the dependencies are problematic to install on SLES so my question is if I remove them from the spec will:

rpmbuild -ba pkg.spec

work?

And keep in mind this is a source rpm.

Any help is appreciated.

[Irithori]

No, it won't.
The author of the spec file most probably placed the build requirements for a reason.
Usually (source) rpms of the distribution itself or at least from a compatible repository are chosen for that.

So my guess is, that you try to modify a specfile, that is not intended for suse?

[Rodayo]

Not exactly. The rpm is compatible with SUSE because I downloaded it from the opensuse package builder database. Or whatever it's called.

I made some modifications to it's source tar archive and want to package it back up into an rpm.

But in order to do so I have about 6 unmet dependencies(which have their own unmet dependencies). The SLES iso I'm working with has a rpm-dir repository that provided most of them, thank god, but quite a few of them I'm unable to find.

So I was wondering if I can get away with modifying the spec file.

I suppose rpmbuild itself needs to go through the build process so the packages are required no matter what...?

[jayd512]

I suppose rpmbuild itself needs to go through the build process so the packages are required no matter what...?

That would pretty much be the case.

[Rodayo]

That would pretty much be the case.

Well I'll keep trying to resolve the dependencies issue by manually installing packages. I suppose that's my only option.

Unless....is there an online repository that provides SuSe rpms? Something I can use as a SMART channel. Like I said the sles iso has a lot of packages but really it's nothing compared to the ubuntu archives for example.

[Rodayo]

Bump:

Rather than making a new thread I thought I'd ask here.

I'm attempting to install an rpm with "rpm -Uvh ..." but I get an unmet dependency error:

libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) is needed by lua-5.1.4-18.3.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7)(64bit) is needed by lua-5.1.4-18.3.x86_64
libreadline.so.6()(64bit) is needed by lua-5.1.4-18.3.x86_64

However a find query shows me that libc.so.6 is located in /lib and libreadline in /lib64.

I added both the paths to $PATH but that didn't do the trick.

Any ideas?