[Fedora-packaging] Broken Symlinks

[Deepu K S]

Hello,

Sorry for the delay.
I tried below change in kernel.spec and now with this patch, the build and
source symlinks are moved into kernel-devel package.

This was been tested for Fedora 21 kernel-3.19.7-200
Source RPM : kernel-3.19.7-200.fc21.src.rpm

I request kernel package maintainers to please have look into it.

--- a/kernel-orig.spec    2015-05-08 03:06:43.000000000 +0530
+++ b/kernel.spec    2015-05-22 23:17:07.636035055 +0530
@@ -2252,8 +2252,6 @@ fi
 %dir /lib/modules\
 %dir /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}\
 %dir /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/kernel\
-/lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/build\
-/lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/source\
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/updates\
 %ifarch %{vdso_arches}\
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/vdso\
@@ -2263,6 +2261,8 @@ fi
 %{expand:%%files -f kernel-%{?2:%{2}-}modules.list %{?2:%{2}-}modules}\
 %defattr(-,root,root)\
 %{expand:%%files %{?2:%{2}-}devel}\
+/lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/build\
+/lib/modules/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}/source\
 %defattr(-,root,root)\
 /usr/src/kernels/%{KVERREL}%{?2:+%{2}}\
 %{expand:%%files %{?2:%{2}-}modules-extra}\


Thanks and Regards,
Deepu K S

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Jonathan Underwood <
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 April 2015 at 09:17, John Dodson <johnd at physiol.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> > Sorry - I've been offline for a bit.
> >
> > Thanks Deepu & others.
> > I think the dangling symlink problem is now in the right place & will
> probably
> > get some attention by at least being brought up & thought about.
> > I'm sure the Kernel people will deal with it when they can & they will
> be moved
> > to the -devel package appropriately.
>
> I think there'll only be more progress on the issue if someone
> proposes a packaging guideline draft along the lines of what Dominik
> proposed earlier in the thread.
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