Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754576AbXKZPXT (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751088AbXKZPXM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:12 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:37169 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbXKZPXL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:23:10 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Ray Lee cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0711260658j5ce017e7ucce4c373748ed7b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <2c0942db0711260658j5ce017e7ucce4c373748ed7b7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 22 On Nov 26 2007 06:58, Ray Lee wrote: >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. Those old machines probably do not even run a distro-fabricated gcc that would compile a git head kernel. - 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/