Re: [PATCH 0/2] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Address -debuginfo build regression with RPM < 4.20.0

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 09:25:25AM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Oh, yeah, I just tried the following change on top of commit cee73b1e840c
> ("Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux"), so without this
> series applied:
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> index 0f1c8de1bd95..86ca327ebccf 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> +++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ against the %{version} kernel package.
>  %if %{with_debuginfo}
>  %package debuginfo
>  Summary: Debug information package for the Linux kernel
> +AutoReqProv: no
>  %description debuginfo
>  This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from the
>  %{version} package.
> 
> And I'm able to generate RPMs too without errors!

Great, thanks for confirming! Does it still work with:

  AutoReq: 0
  AutoProv: 1

as I notice that is what the %_debuginfo_template in /usr/lib/rpm/macros
uses by default. I suspect that the automatic requires is where things
explodes and I think we do want the automatic provides because I believe
that is how the "this package provides this debug build ID" generation
happens.

Cheers,
Nathan