rpm build/pa issues

[Ted X Toth]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:25 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>   
>> 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".
>>     
>
> The Release Notes don't address specifically building a new kernel RPM.
> The typical Fedora-specific way for building the kernel AIUI would be to
> use rpmbuild and the specfile, as for other RPMs.  Doing so makes
> EXTRAVERSION work as expected, and (when using --target=i686) generates
> the expected .i686.rpm kernel(s).  I'll add a sentence or two to the
> Release Notes that discusses this.
>
>   
Could you include them here now also, please?