deltarpm for Rawhide kernel not working

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Andre Robatino
<robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Andre Robatino <robatino <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>
>> I get similar output on F16, for example "rpm -V kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64"
>> gives
>>
>> ?........    /boot/System.map-3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.alias
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.alias.bin
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.builtin.bin
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.ccwmap
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep.bin
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.devname
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.ieee1394map
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.inputmap
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.isapnpmap
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.ofmap
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.pcimap
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.seriomap
>> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.softdep
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.symbols
>> 5S.T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.symbols.bin
>> 5..T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.usbmap
>
> On the other hand,
>
> [andre at compaq-pc tmp]$ rpm -V kernel-3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64
> ?........    /boot/System.map-3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64
> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64/modules.devname
> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64/modules.softdep
> [andre at compaq-pc tmp]$ rpm -V kernel-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
> ?........    /boot/System.map-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64/modules.devname
> ...T.....    /lib/modules/3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64/modules.softdep
> [andre at compaq-pc tmp]$
>
> So maybe the same issue now exists in F16 as well (I'll check whether the
> deltarpm for the next F16 kernel update works).

The modules.* files (most of them anyway) are created by depmod, which
is run by new-kernel-package in the %posttrans section of the
kernel.spec.  That means they are generated at RPM install time.

The 3.1.6 and rawhide kernels both contain a compat-wireless addition
to them that builds and installs newer wireless drivers.  I know the
build mechanism was doing a lot of modprobe calls on those during RPM
build time and John fixed that recently.  Perhaps it was causing those
files to actually get packaged from %build/%install and then the
%posttrans was overwritting the packaged files as expected.  That
would cause the output you see I think.

John, any thoughts if that might be the case?

josh