On Saturday, October 12, 2013 03:39:05 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > On Saturday, October 12, 2013 03:03:32 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom > > patches applied on top) is to make rpm and install this into my system for > > a clean add/remove of test kernels. > > > > However, the developers of rpm removed the --target and -ta options, so I > > can't take tarball and build into RPM anymore. > > > > Since I last built custom RPM builds of Linus's tree was likely Fedora 18, > > it seems the option target got removed by 19. > > > > Any ideas, fixes? > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > Sorry for noise, I was missing rpm-build. That said, here's a patch to > force check for rpm-build as any modern RPM distribution should be be using > a newer rpm release. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <shawn.st...@rogers.com> --- scripts/package/Makefile | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile index a4f31c9..aac24de 100644 --- a/scripts/package/Makefile +++ b/scripts/package/Makefile @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ # Do we have rpmbuild, otherwise fall back to the older rpm RPM := $(shell if [ -x "/usr/bin/rpmbuild" ]; then echo rpmbuild; \ - else echo rpm; fi) + else echo none; fi) # Remove hyphens since they have special meaning in RPM filenames KERNELPATH := kernel-$(subst -,_,$(KERNELRELEASE)) @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ rpm-pkg rpm: FORCE rm -f $(objtree)/.scmversion $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkversion > $(objtree)/.tmp_version mv -f $(objtree)/.tmp_version $(objtree)/.version + @if test "$(RPM)" != "rpmbuild"; then \ + echo "To build the kernel you must install the rpm-build package from your distribution" ;\ + echo "aborting package creation." ; \ + false; \ + fi + $(RPM) $(RPMOPTS) --target $(UTS_MACHINE) -ta $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz rm $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz kernel.spec -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/