rpm build/pa issues

[Jay Cliburn]

Xavier Toth wrote:
> I downloaded the rawhide kernel sources and tried to make a i686 rpm.
> Following the instructions on
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6test2/  I ran 'rpmbuild
> -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec' then copied
> configs/kernel-2.6.17-i686.config to .config and edited the Makefile
> changing EXTRAVERSION = -prep to EXTRAVERSION = -1.2647.fc6. I then
> did a 'make oldconfig' (unclear why this is necessary since the copied
> a prebuilt config file already) and then 'make rpm'. The result of the
> make is rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kernel-2.6.171.2647.fc6-1.i386.rpm and
> there are several issues with this:
> 1) a i386 rpm was produced not a i686 rpm
> 2) the EXTRAVERSION losses its '-' and so is run up against the kernel
> version in the file name '2.6.171.2647.fc6'
> 
> Are the instruction correct? Are these bugs in the build system?
> 
> Ted
> 

Despite what anyone on this list tells you to the contrary, the dash _will_ be 
removed when you run "make rpm".
See ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-<vers>/linux-<vers>/scripts/package/Makefile at line 30.

Also see this thread. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00272.html

So yes, the Release Notes are incorrect.  You need to use a period, not a dash, 
in the EXTRAVERSION field if you intend to "make rpm".

Jay