Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755996AbXKZQPr (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:15:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752582AbXKZQPk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:15:40 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:39257 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108AbXKZQPj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:15:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:13:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Ray Lee , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <2c0942db0711260658j5ce017e7ucce4c373748ed7b7@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1551 Lines: 42 On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Nov 26 2007 10:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >>>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. > > > >well, in a nutshell, the problem scenario is that it's entirely > >possible to have a modern distro (say, fedora 8, like i'm using) on > >which you have the latest "rpm" package installed, but not > >"rpmbuild". > > What, modern and no rpmbuild? > > AFAIR, it had rpmbuild back to at least FC6, it's not that new this > rpmbuild. i didn't say it *wouldn't* have rpmbuild, i said it *might not*. at the moment, on my f8 system, the only package that requires the rpm-build package is rpmdevtools, and it's entirely possible that there's no need for *that* package. so all i'm suggesting is that the build procedure take into account the possibility that rpm-build is not installed. 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/