From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13702 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751648Ab3GHQUw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:20:52 -0400 Message-ID: <51DAE6CC.2030507@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:20:28 -0400 From: Doug Ledford 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> <51DAD082.7080700@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <51DAD082.7080700@suse.cz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2AKQNSPIFNWQPIXXDGBCW" Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Michal Marek Cc: "Marciniszyn, Mike" , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" , "mmarcini@yahoo.com" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2AKQNSPIFNWQPIXXDGBCW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 defi= nitely >>> 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 requ= iring >> # RPM v4. This is intended to work with any RPM distro. >> >> Are there old distros that still care about this? >=20 > 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. ------enig2AKQNSPIFNWQPIXXDGBCW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJR2ubYAAoJELgmozMOVy/d+z0P/3TGxDrkfZgVYe/Bn8i/vCjI SKa/6ns9fQdJ1ksstQZoFzbOqCaG+3nkL2TBHDAiLvUiGuLKUw3Tt+Lc5fPaA6sA FQsdHPz8ea2NHRbQS/BGuIy484CTR8mSQRom6c4Rid3zyBm5IBhgq1fHJUuPsSjm Mxo1+V2NUX/cwsKvGlacUNO2jGx1SwXDE+U05NgmFXaoo2vCWV7XVUuR54ZLTH3h DFiFvWYnGj7U/TgnQ2Y4v+Qs/3Iqb/d5X/MfcVLQ6pBt3XRXu511nT2JpBY9Pgh+ dT6c/oRpoSTZFsp4DA25z5hcpcNUOSzgVNJUPmxj3RkKrRkl54awxYzzWwpcaOMq C+ppO9sBd8Ru7acaGtxeYY1UlBzknZboXa4sHKs6SxoE6piYsEQT52qW/DPir+jS sqS1aaSCnBwDuZXiuSE+MAPyj5YxLrG4h3LyVGnQ+VLRctGBBupjPktaKJMXWMCL ATHEtlHM5/6pcKxiz6M2/Of/CAZuQ182Cwn84S6WNIMJuZ9WvDuzHHUb7LTU7sgU Crkj7aIxCxaZFhIoHsfXf7ZGh7NPrEZxlEkpAwAPqFs/XCJRRchx9VnrypqK5dan F3OumzdeS9BSnYc1uCwamaiPyBsgTA74aA/QrLGLBeO6SfKHtLdZEAt6NFJ5Pob4 vRGHsSeuHjBX09U2Pryo =LXqe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2AKQNSPIFNWQPIXXDGBCW--