Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped?

["Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>]

On Nov 26, 2007 7:12 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 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?  :-)

I'm afraid I'm all .deb here, so no go for me.