Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755949AbXKZI5B (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:57:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754940AbXKZI4t (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:56:49 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:34130 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754669AbXKZI4q (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:56:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:54:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1087 Lines: 32 by that, i mean *requiring* the "rpmbuild" command, and not accepting "rpm" as a subsititute, as you can read in scripts/package/Makefile: # Do we have rpmbuild, otherwise fall back to the older rpm RPM := $(shell if [ -x "/usr/bin/rpmbuild" ]; then echo rpmbuild; \ else echo rpm; fi) on current systems, "rpm" no longer has build capability and will fail thusly: rpm --target i386 -ta ../kernel-2.6.24rc3g2ffbb837dirty.tar.gz --target: unknown option so it would make more sense to just require "rpmbuild" on the machine, would it not? rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/