On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ray Lee wrote: > 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.
yes, i suspect that's the right answer. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/
