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.
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