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

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Nov 26 2007 11:13, 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?
>
>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.

rpm -b does not work in opensuse anymore (redirects you to use rpmbuild), and I
bet fedora will do the same, so if you don't have rpm-build, tough luck for
make rpm.

>so all i'm suggesting is that the
>build procedure take into account the possibility that rpm-build is
>not installed.
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