Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:37:37 -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, 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.
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