[Linux-cluster] RHEL4 srpm spec file bugs/problems

[Chris Feist]

Troy,

Could you please a bug for the messy BUILD/smp issue?  (The 
fake-build-provides problem has just been fixed).

It will allow us to track this issue and make sure that it gets resolved.


Thanks,
Chris

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Howdy,
> These problems might have already been taken care of (I haven't checked 
> out the latest CVS), but just incase they haven't, here's some problems 
> I encountered while rebuilding the RHEL4 src rpm's, and way's they could 
> be fixed.
> 
> First - cman-kernel has the build dependancy on fake-build-provides, 
> which isn't in the RHEL4 release.  The way around this is to build it 
> with the --nodeps option.  But it really should be taken out of the 
> RHEL4 spec files unless it is going to be provided at some time.
> (this was already discussed on this mailling list, but I'll put it here 
> for completeness)
> 
> Second - source rpm's that build kernel modules leave messy BUILD/smp 
> and BUILD/hugemem directories when they are done.  These don't get 
> cleaned up, and when you are building the next rpm that does kernel 
> modules, there is conflicting files, so the next rpm doesn't build 
> correctly.
> Currently you have to remove those directories by hand after each rpm 
> that builds a kernel module.  It would be nice if there was a couple of 
> cleanup lines in the %clean section in the spec files.
> 
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson