linux-kernel - Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped?

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:23:10 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped?


On Nov 26 2007 06:58, Ray Lee wrote:
>On Nov 26, 2007 12:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> 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.
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