Re: No longer able to build kernel into RPM on Fedora

[Shawn Starr]

On Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:35:09 AM Chris Jones wrote:
> As a temporary work around, can you revert to the older version of RPM?
> 

Hi Chris,

I was missing rpm-build, I have a patch submitted to force use of rpm-build. 
AFAIK, nobody uses legacy rpm anymore since falling back to just rpm will fail 
since it does not have --target or -ta options.

Thanks,
Shawn

> 
> Regards
> 
> On 10/13/2013 05:03 AM, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom
> > patches applied on top) is to make rpm and install this into my system for
> > a clean add/remove of test kernels.
> > 
> > However,  the developers of rpm removed the --target and -ta options, so I
> > can't take tarball and build into RPM anymore.
> > 
> > Since I last built custom RPM builds of Linus's tree was likely Fedora 18,
> > it seems the option target got removed by 19.
> > 
> > Any ideas, fixes?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn
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