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

[Troy Dawson]

Submitted as bug 163963

Thanks
Troy

Chris Feist wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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