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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped?
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:54:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711260352060.30676@localhost.localdomain> (raw)


  by that, i mean *requiring* the "rpmbuild" command, and not
accepting "rpm" as a subsititute, as you can read in
scripts/package/Makefile:

# 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)

  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?

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

http://crashcourse.ca
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-26  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-26  8:54 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2007-11-26 14:58 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-26 15:08   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-26 15:12     ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-26 15:19       ` Ray Lee
2007-11-26 15:23   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-26 15:53     ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-26 16:05       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-26 16:13         ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-26 16:17           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-27 13:37             ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-27 13:46             ` Olivier Galibert

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