Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: add generation of kernel-devel

Doug Ledford
2013-07-08T16:20:52Z

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On 7/8/2013 10:45 AM, Michal Marek wrote:
> 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.

Quick google search confirms that rpm 4.0.3 was released in December of
2001. I think it's safe to say we can use %exclude and not worry about
anything so ancient it can't support it.

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