Bug 854689

Summary:	kernel-devel is including to autoconf.h files, one with 0 bytes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Brian J. Murrell <brian>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Brian J. Murrell 2012-09-05 14:51:43 UTC

The kernel-devel package seems to include two autoconf.h files, one with content and one with 0 bytes:

$ rpm -qvlp kernel-devel-3.3.0-0.rc3.git5.1.fc17.x86_64.rpm | grep autoconf
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                   826381 Feb 14  2012 /usr/src/kernels/3.3.0-0.rc3.git5.1.fc17.x86_64/include/generated/autoconf.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                        0 Feb 14  2012 /usr/src/kernels/3.3.0-0.rc3.git5.1.fc17.x86_64/include/linux/autoconf.h

I wonder if this is intentional and if so, what the purpose is.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-09-05 15:26:48 UTC

This is probably coming from a section in the kernel.spec file that does:


    # Make sure the Makefile and version.h have a matching timestamp so that
    # external modules can be built
    touch -r $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules/$KernelVer/build/Makefile $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules/$KernelVer/build/include/linux/version.h
    touch -r $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules/$KernelVer/build/.config $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules/$KernelVer/build/include/linux/autoconf.h


That pre-dates our git usage and I'm not even sure it's needed any longer.

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2013-01-02 17:43:26 UTC

This was fixed in F18.

Comment 3 Brian J. Murrell 2013-01-02 17:48:30 UTC

Cool.  How does it end up getting to EL?  It's needed there also.

Comment 4 Josh Boyer 2013-01-02 18:28:09 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Cool.  How does it end up getting to EL?  It's needed there also.

You will need to open a bug against the relevant RHEL release(s) to have it fixed in RHEL.  The Fedora and RHEL kernels are maintained separately.

Comment 5 Brian J. Murrell 2013-01-02 18:47:22 UTC

~sigh~

To which I suppose I will get the standard "talk to your EL support sales person" boilerplate and since I don't have one of those, nothing will happen.