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. - 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/
