From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265271AbUBPAHL (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:07:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265275AbUBPAHL (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:07:11 -0500 Received: from lanshark.nersc.gov ([128.55.16.114]:44482 "EHLO lanshark.nersc.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265271AbUBPAGq (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:06:46 -0500 Message-ID: <403008C0.1070806@lbl.gov> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:03:12 -0800 From: Thomas Davis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix make rpm in 2.6 when using RH9 or Fedora.. References: <402BD507.2040201@lbl.gov> <402EE151.4000807@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <402EE151.4000807@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > 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. > There is four options to fix this problem. 1) Change the RH9/Fedora macros. 2) Add a global entry into my .rpmmacros 3) Find and create the missing file (empty, in this case) (ie, do a 'touch /usr/src/linux-2.6.3/debugfiles.list' and it will proceed without making the debugfile RPM.) 4) Disable it in the specfile, since only RH9/Fedora does this, and Mandrake/SuSE probably doesn't. I'm not going to do #1, and I'm not going to do #2, I'll settle for #3 or #4, but #3 now means another file to ship around or create, even if it's empty. This simply gets it working again. thomas