Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756768AbXKZQR2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:17:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752408AbXKZQRU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:17:20 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:33801 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752308AbXKZQRT (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:17:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:17:18 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Robert P. J. Day" 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 32 On Nov 26 2007 11:13, 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? > >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. rpm -b does not work in opensuse anymore (redirects you to use rpmbuild), and I bet fedora will do the same, so if you don't have rpm-build, tough luck for make rpm. >so all i'm suggesting is that the >build procedure take into account the possibility that rpm-build is >not installed. - 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/