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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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?  :-)

rday

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