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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html