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
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