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

Michal Marek
2013-07-08T14:45:26Z

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