failing kmod build for FC-6

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 11/2/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Showing us the exact error message might help us to give a proper answer.


Sorry for the rushed report, I was at work with little time to write it better.
So, here is the steps I performed:

1. remove the old sandbox for sysprof-kmod (rm -rf sysprof-kmod)
2. download a new sandbox ( cvs co sysprof-kmod )
In devel subdir:
3. imported new sources ( make new-sources FILES="sysprof-1.0.5.tar.gz")
4. edited and committed .spec for the new release
5. make tag build

this was OK (or at least, buildsys was happy with it...)

now in FC-6 subdir:
6. imported new sources ( make new-sources FILES="sysprof-1.0.5.tar.gz")
7. edited and committed .spec for the new release
8. "make tag build" fails with:

[giallu at hal9001 FC-6]$ make tag build
cvs tag  -c sysprof-kmod-1_0_5-1_2_6_18_1_2798_fc6
For more information on using the Fedora source code repositories,
please visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UsingCvs
ERROR: The tag sysprof-kmod-1_0_5-1_2_6_18_1_2798_fc6 is already
applied on a different branch
ERROR: You can not forcibly move tags between branches
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-1_2_6_18_1_2689_fc6:devel:giallu:1159979253
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-1_2_6_18_1_2726_fc6:devel:giallu:1159998972
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-2_2_6_18_1_2726_fc6:devel:giallu:1159999645
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-3_2_6_18_1_2726_fc6:devel:giallu:1160000514
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-3_2_6_17_1_2187_FC5:FC-5:giallu:1160173663
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-4_2_6_18_1_2747_fc6:devel:giallu:1160343329
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-5_2_6_18_1_2747_fc6:devel:giallu:1160345322
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-5_2_6_18_1_2747_fc6:devel:giallu:1160346293
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-3_kernel_2_6_18_1_2200_fc5:FC-5:giallu:1161013509
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-3_2_6_18_1_2200_fc5:FC-5:giallu:1161016035
sysprof-kmod-1_0_3-5_2_6_18_1_2798_fc6:devel:giallu:1161087192
sysprof-kmod-1_0_5-1_2_6_18_1_2798_fc6:devel:giallu:1162421622
cvs tag: Pre-tag check failed
cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
make: *** [tag] Error 1


I hope this makes everything clearer. if not, feel free to ask me any
other relevant info


>
> > What could have been done to prevent me
> > from falling in this trap?
>
> Do you have a .rpmmacros and ~/rpmbuild on the machine where you tried
> to tag? Is kmodtool available from where you tag?
>

Yes and yes.