Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:12:37 -0500 (EST) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped? |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ray Lee wrote: > > > On Nov 26, 2007 12:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.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. So the change wouldn't > > fix anything, and would break some non-zero number of setups that > > are currently working, making the change a guaranteed net loss. > > > > A patch that added version checks against rpm and whinged > > appropriately about needing rpmbuild would likely be accepted, > > though. > > yes, i suspect that's the right answer. > > rday
BTW, is there someone who knows what the relevant version is of "rpm" that stopped incorporating the packaging functionality? i'm a bit swamped today but if someone wants to whip up a patch and get it in before the next major release, that would be useful, i would think.
in short, can someone else handle this? :-)
rday
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