[PATCH] allow multiple debuginfo packages installed

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Sun Nov 21 02:11:54 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:06:44PM -0500, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
> Currently it's not possible to install multiple debuginfo packages in
> the same system. See:
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435941
> 	(unfortunately only available for RH engineers)
> This patch fixes the problem by simply changing the directory name where
> the kernel is built. Because normally the directory used will be
> linux-2.6.35.x86_64, linux-2.6.35-1 and linux-2.6.35-2 won't be allowed
> to co-exist because of file conflict.

Thanks, Aris. (What a waste of disk. :)

> @@ -1135,13 +1135,13 @@ if [ -d linux-%{kversion}.%{_target_cpu} ]; then
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Missed one.

Seems to work OK, I merged a few revs through it and it seemed fine.
Let's shake it down in rawhide for a while and then we'll commit it to
the older branches.

--Kyle


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