On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Nov 26 2007 10:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >>>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. > > > >well, in a nutshell, the problem scenario is that it's entirely > >possible to have a modern distro (say, fedora 8, like i'm using) on > >which you have the latest "rpm" package installed, but not > >"rpmbuild". > > What, modern and no rpmbuild? > > AFAIR, it had rpmbuild back to at least FC6, it's not that new this > rpmbuild.
i didn't say it *wouldn't* have rpmbuild, i said it *might not*. at the moment, on my f8 system, the only package that requires the rpm-build package is rpmdevtools, and it's entirely possible that there's no need for *that* package. so all i'm suggesting is that the build procedure take into account the possibility that rpm-build is not installed. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/
