[PATCH][BUILD] Force check for rpm-build where package is not installed

[Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>]

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 03:03:32 PM Shawn Starr wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom
> patches applied on top) is to make rpm and install this into my system for a
> clean add/remove of test kernels.
> 
> However,  the developers of rpm removed the --target and -ta options, so I
> can't take tarball and build into RPM anymore.
> 
> Since I last built custom RPM builds of Linus's tree was likely Fedora 18,
> it seems the option target got removed by 19.
> 
> Any ideas, fixes?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shawn

Sorry for noise,  I was missing rpm-build. That said, here's a patch to force check for rpm-build as any modern RPM distribution should be be using a newer rpm release.

Thanks,
Shawn

Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
---
 scripts/package/Makefile               | 8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
	
diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile
index a4f31c9..aac24de 100644
--- a/scripts/package/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/package/Makefile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 # 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)
+                  else echo none; fi)
 
 # Remove hyphens since they have special meaning in RPM filenames
 KERNELPATH := kernel-$(subst -,_,$(KERNELRELEASE))
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ rpm-pkg rpm: FORCE
        rm -f $(objtree)/.scmversion
        $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkversion > $(objtree)/.tmp_version
        mv -f $(objtree)/.tmp_version $(objtree)/.version
+       @if test "$(RPM)" != "rpmbuild"; then \
+               echo "To build the kernel you must install the rpm-build package from your distri
+               echo "aborting package creation." ; \
+               false; \
+       fi
+
        $(RPM) $(RPMOPTS) --target $(UTS_MACHINE) -ta $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz
        rm $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz kernel.spec