Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:33:23 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: rpm builder of kernel image |
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:15:20PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:21:00PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > You might want to take a look at make-krpm [1], currently I only have > > > support for Caldera and a default target that might work or not work > > > for others. I accept patches.. > > > > Or for Linux 2.4.13 or later just type > > > > make config > > make rpm > > Yes, that's even older than my tool. But I don't think we want that > infrastructure inside the kernel. > > - there are lots of packaging systems > - there even are lots of incompatible rpm versions > - you really want to plug into some vendor-infrastructure, e.g. > boot loader configuration > - sooner or later I want to add some system to auto-apply patches > (similar to what debian does) - there are other architectures which have rpm based distros. 'make rpm' is currently x86-only.
This really should be a vendor-provided tool, or at least something provided outside of the kernel by 3rd parties.
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