[OpenAFS] Re: testing RPMs for 1.4.2

[Mike Dopheide]

I think you're looking for some additional rpmmacros...

http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-devel/2005-June/000818.html

-Mike

> Hello all,
>
> I tried to do that rebuild,  this is what I get.
>
> [root@io OpenAFS]# rpmbuild --rebuild --target=x86_64 
> openafs-1.4.2-19_fc4.at.src.rpm
> Installing openafs-1.4.2-19_fc4.at.src.rpm
> warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
> 66534c2b
> Building target platforms: x86_64
> Building for target x86_64
> error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl openafs
>
> any ideas ?
>
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:26:43PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> Quoting Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net>:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:12:37PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>>> rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 openafs...src.rpm
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll let Axel try to explain to you why his method has to be so much
>>>>> more complicated than that.  ;)
>>>> Who says it is? You need a working kernel build environment for the
>>>> kernel in question, too, or have you found a way to do it w/o kernel
>>>> sources? ;)
>>> No, you just need the kernel-devel package for the running kernel.
>> 
>> For openafs, perhaps, and IIRC leo uses this. I've seen too much
>> breakage (ipw*, ieee80211, lirc, v4l and more break in the pure
>> kernel-devel environment) and I prefer playing safe and using the full
>> kernel sources for any kmdl build. But you can try building any kmdl
>> against kernel-devel, too.
>> 
>>> So I was basing my statement on yours, where you said:
>>> 
>>>> Rebuilding from src.rpm is a bit involved.
>> 
>> I do stand by that statement, depending on your level of expertise it
>> is involved, at least more involved than building non-kernel dependent
>> packages, and certainly even more so for someone who seems not to know
>> how to upgrade his dangerously aged kernel rpm to the latest vendor
>> provided one (or doesn't know how dangerous it is to run such a kernel
>> in the net) and therefore considers rebuilding for that flawed kernel
>> (this is no offence against Ron).
>> 
>> There are reasons other than space that ATrpms doesn't support kernels
>> with known vulnerabilities.
>
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