Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:25:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:24:55 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:10248 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:24:47 -0500 Subject: Re: rpm builder of kernel image To: hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:33:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), maftoul@esrf.fr (Samuel Maftoul), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011129161519.A9688@caldera.de> from "Christoph Hellwig" at Nov 29, 2001 04:15:20 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Yes, that's even older than my tool. But I don't think we want that > infrastructure inside the kernel. Oh I think you do. > - there are lots of packaging systems two in mainstream use. Debian dpkg and RPM. > - there even are lots of incompatible rpm versions There are some features in the newer RPM. The make rpm target avoids them and sticks to directives present in the LSB specified RPM version. > - you really want to plug into some vendor-infrastructure, e.g. > boot loader configuration That I do want to improve on. I have some ideas. > - sooner or later I want to add some system to auto-apply patches > (similar to what debian does) patch < blah make config make rpm Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/