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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Espen Carlsen <ec@numascale.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>,
	Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] build: fix broken kernel RPM source symlink
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:14:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D49D6B.7050800@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435664842-17908-1-git-send-email-ec@numascale.com>

On 2015-06-30 13:47, Espen Carlsen wrote:
> Fix the 'rpm-pkg' makefile target to always generate the correct
> /usr/src/kernel/<ver> symlink; this fails on non-RPM-native systems
> eg Ubuntu.
> 
> On a non-RPM-native system, the symlink created by rpmbuild points to
> the source tree, so the ln -sf commands to overwrite build and source will
> create a new link inside the directory pointed to by the build and source
> symlinks. This will break the -devel.rpm, as the build and source symlinks
> will point to non existing directories after installing them.

Which version of rpm do you have installed? $RPM_BUILD_ROOT should be
deleted and created empty by rpmbuild. If you have stale files in
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT, you will likely have bigger problem than this.

Michal

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-30 11:47 [PATCH, resend] build: fix broken kernel RPM source symlink Espen Carlsen
2015-07-04 10:19 ` Paul Bolle
2015-07-06 19:37   ` Espen Carlsen
2015-07-08 14:26     ` Paul Bolle
2015-07-08 15:42       ` Espen Carlsen
2015-07-08 16:18         ` Paul Bolle
2015-07-08 18:47           ` Espen Carlsen
2015-07-08 18:52             ` Paul Bolle
2015-07-08 16:56     ` Paul Bolle
2015-07-09  9:29       ` Espen Carlsen
2015-08-19 15:14 ` Michal Marek [this message]

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