From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34237 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468Ab3GHOp0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:45:26 -0400 Message-ID: <51DAD082.7080700@suse.cz> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:45:22 +0200 From: Michal Marek MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: add generation of kernel-devel References: <20130624143658.10761.3787.stgit@phlsvslse11.ph.intel.com> <20130624143833.10761.94871.stgit@phlsvslse11.ph.intel.com> <51D5919B.7010208@suse.cz> <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC2115DC69@FMSMSX107.amr.corp.intel.com> <51DAACB9.5080103@suse.cz> <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC2115DD48@FMSMSX107.amr.corp.intel.com> <51DABF5C.3080502@redhat.com> <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC2115DD99@FMSMSX107.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC2115DD99@FMSMSX107.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Marciniszyn, Mike" Cc: Doug Ledford , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" , "mmarcini@yahoo.com" On 8.7.2013 15:39, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote: >> >> rpm 4.0.3 is *ancient*. An %exclude is perfectly acceptable and definitely >> preferable to a broken payload. >> > > The top of the mkspec shell script has this comment: > # Output a simple RPM spec file that uses no fancy features requiring > # RPM v4. This is intended to work with any RPM distro. > > Are there old distros that still care about this? If it's that old, I don't think we need to care. At least not for building the RPM, because the compiler on such old systems is probably not going to be able to compile the kernel. I wasn't sure if %exclude wasn't added in the last five years or so. Michal