Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755690AbXKZO6d (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:58:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753188AbXKZO60 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:58:26 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:7371 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752654AbXKZO6Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:58:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=J0YT9li9q2Wscw7YXAXAmlsw2qcPjslPB2l7iLOwM0F7yDM3et5VgffJXI9OA7FgHRwJ2GOZzXDrB1HLiUOprRk8rFQSwSabbXFywXIIJdwNjNFcY4A6Km9vLdjrzR3WLmx/lpeBJkC3hYJqWnbmDAgcmFiIMyZMfrMPbU+J+2s= Message-ID: <2c0942db0711260658j5ce017e7ucce4c373748ed7b7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:58:23 -0800 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4ad6ae157a28e94f Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 22 On Nov 26, 2007 12:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? Only on current machines. You'd break building kernel RPMs on older systems that don't have rpmbuild installed. So the change wouldn't fix anything, and would break some non-zero number of setups that are currently working, making the change a guaranteed net loss. A patch that added version checks against rpm and whinged appropriately about needing rpmbuild would likely be accepted, though. - 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/