lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:37:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> cc: Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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. i know that that's the case *now*, but we're considering the possibility that someone is using an older system on which "rpm" is *still* the builder. in the end, all i'm suggesting is that the build should work under all possible scenarios. rday p.s. i'm not *trying* to make this issue more obfuscated or convoluted than it has to be -- i am merely succeeding. ======================================================================== 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists