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

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 06:42:27AM -0500, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>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

Yep, I tried this (compared to the previous email, just to be sure I get 
you):

diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
index 86ca327ebccf..f5d0fa34c51b 100644
--- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
+++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ against the %{version} kernel package.
  %if %{with_debuginfo}
  %package debuginfo
  Summary: Debug information package for the Linux kernel
-AutoReqProv: no
+AutoReq: 0
+AutoProv: 1
  %description debuginfo
  This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from the
  %{version} package.

And I'm able to generate RPMs without errors.


>
>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.

Oh I see, I also have:

     #	Template for debug information sub-package.
     %_debuginfo_template \
     %package debuginfo\
     Summary: Debug information for package %{name}\
     Group: Development/Debug\
     AutoReq: 0\
     AutoProv: 1\
     %description debuginfo\
     This package provides debug information for package %{name}.\
     Debug information is useful when developing applications that use this\
     package or when debugging this package.\
     %files debuginfo -f debugfiles.list\
     %{nil}

So I guess I tested the right thing and it works ;-)

Thanks,
Stefano