On Nov 26, 2007 12:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
