Re: How to fix the kernel RPM build problem when a patch is applied?

[Don Zickus]

cc'ing fedora in case this helps others.

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:51:43PM +0800, GaoYi wrote:
>  Hi Don,
>  
>     I 've encounter the same error as your previous message:
>
> http://markmail.org/message/6pkwdnxfhlh35cld#query:+page:1+mid:yf2bsyvd6l...
>  .
>  
>     I would like to know  make non_oldconfig will use which config file when
>  build the kernel RPM package. And can you provide more details about how
>  you finally fix this problme? 
I assume you added a custom patch to your rpm package.  This patch
probably required an option.  The fedora tree was designed to fail if an
option is not defaulted to on/off.  So you have to tell the build how you
want to set the option.

In order to do that, you might need to understand how the config stuff
gets merged.  It starts with config-generic and gets various arch and
kernel variant configs applied on top (overriding what was underneath).

The easiest thing for you to do is to take the config option that is spit
out as an error (CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY and others in your link
above), and add it to the bottom of config-generic with either a y/n/m
like so:

CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY=y
or
CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY=m
or
# CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY is not set

That should solve your 'make non_oldconfig' problem.

Cheers,
Don

How to fix the kernel RPM build problem when a patch is applied?

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  The easiest thing for you to do is to take the config option that is
> spit
>  out as an error (CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY and others in your link
>  above), and add it to the bottom of config-generic with either a y/n/m
>  like so:
>
>  CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY=y
>  or
>  CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY=m
>  or
>  # CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY is not set
>
>  That should solve your 'make non_oldconfig' problem. 
Or just add it to config-local.  That gets merged last and is intended
for local builds and such.

josh

How to fix the kernel RPM build problem when a patch is applied?

[Don Zickus]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 09:59:30AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > The easiest thing for you to do is to take the config option that is spit
>  > out as an error (CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY and others in your link
>  > above), and add it to the bottom of config-generic with either a y/n/m
>  > like so:
>  >
>  > CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY=y
>  > or
>  > CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY=m
>  > or
>  > # CONFIG_TIPC_UNICLUSTER_FRIENDLY is not set
>  >
>  > That should solve your 'make non_oldconfig' problem.
>  
>  Or just add it to config-local.  That gets merged last and is intended
>  for local builds and such. 
Ah good point.  Always useful to cc the list. :-)

Cheers,
Don