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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