Re: can support for "rpm"-based package building just be dropped?

On Nov 26 2007 06:58, 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.

Those old machines probably do not even run a distro-fabricated gcc that
would compile a git head kernel.
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