Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:54:48 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | | Subject | can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? |
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by that, i mean *requiring* the "rpmbuild" command, and not accepting "rpm" as a subsititute, as you can read in scripts/package/Makefile:
# Do we have rpmbuild, otherwise fall back to the older rpm RPM := $(shell if [ -x "/usr/bin/rpmbuild" ]; then echo rpmbuild; \ else echo rpm; fi)
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?
rday
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