[CentOS-devel] there's something happened between kernel 2.6.28-128.1.1 and 2.6.18-128.1.6 compilation

[Nikolay Ulyanitsky]

kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.src.rpm from upstream provider can be
rebuilded without any problems with mock. You must set proper target
architectures in mock:
   $ mock --target noarch,i686,i386 -r redhat-5.3-i386
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.src.rpm

Rebuilded package has unifdef:
   $ rpm -qp --requires kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.src.rpm | grep unifdef
unifdef

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 17:30 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> it seems there should happened something with centos build system
> between kernel 2.6.28-128.1.1 and 2.6.18-128.1.6 compilation. because
> although the two spec files only differs with a few dozen of patches the
> resulted src.rpm are different ie:
> -----------------------------------------
> # rpm -qp --requires kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.src.rpm | grep unifdef
> unifdef
> # rpm -qp --requires kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.src.rpm | grep unifdef
> #
> -----------------------------------------
> and this small differences means the latest kernel can't be compiled in
> mock.
> what's more the same is not true for rhel's kernel ie. in case of rhel's
> 2.6.18-128.1.6 it gives unifdef. so it's a centos bug and with this bug
> centos don't follow upstream behavior.
> just my 2c.
> 

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With best regards
Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor at lystor.org.ua>