Re: [PATCH] Fix make rpm in 2.6 when using RH9 or Fedora..

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Thomas Davis wrote:
> Doing a 'make rpm' with any linux-2.6 (or probably, even linux-2.4 
> kernel) will fail with the current RH/Fedora RPM macros.
> 
> The failure message is this:
> 
> Processing files: kernel-debuginfo-2.6.3rc1mm1-12
> error: Could not open %files file 
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.3rc1mm1/debugfiles.list: No such file 
> or directory
> 
> 
> RPM build errors:
>    Could not open %files file 
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.3rc1mm1/debugfiles.list: No such file 
> or directory
> make: *** [rpm] Error 1
> 
> 
> The fix is this patch:
> 
> --- linux-2.6/scripts/mkspec    2004-01-08 22:59:04.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.3-rc1-mm1/scripts/mkspec  2004-02-12 00:02:55.000000000 -0800
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
> echo "BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}-root"
> echo "Provides: $PROVIDES"
> echo "%define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress || :"
> +echo "%define debug_package %{nil}"
> echo ""
> echo "%description"
> echo "The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself"

Why do you want to disable the missing file check? As opposed to 
providing the file?

I personally fix ther problem instead of disabling the check, the list 
can be empty, of course.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979