OT: BuildRequires kernel-devel is failing on F9, working just fine on everything else

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 15:01:32 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:45 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:28:45 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I've got an RPM auto-generator that build a certain kernel mode driver RPM for my project.
> > The SRPM generation (and build) worked just fine on anything from F6-8 and RHEL4-5.
> > However, the kernel-devel BR is failing on F9 with no apparent reason.
> > 
> > $ rpmbuild -ba kosdep-kmod.spec 
> > error: Failed build dependencies:                             
> >         kernel-devel-x86_64 = 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 is needed by kosdep-kmod-4.5.6-23.fc9.x86_64
> > 
>                                                 ^^^^^^^
> 
> That has never worked before, afaik. --------------^
> 
> > $ rpm -qa | grep 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
> > kernel-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
> > kernel-headers-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
> > kernel-devel-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
> > 
> > $ cat kosdep-kmod.spec | grep 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 | grep Require
> > BuildRequires: kernel-devel-%{_target_cpu} = 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
> > Requires: kernel-%{_target_cpu} = 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
> > 
> > I tried adding (and removing) the _target_cpu; I tried removing the
> > fc9.x86_64 suffix from the version - nothing seem to work.
> 
> You cannot remove the .fc9 as you require a specific
> %version-%release, and .fc9 is part of %release. You must remove
> the .x86_64 suffix, however, as it is not part of %release.
> 

That worked.
Thanks!

Last question, though, should I add a if 0?fedora exception to the SRPM
generator to keep the invalid-yet-working behavior for older releases?

- Gilboa




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