Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140376
make rpm error
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:12:55 EST
Description of problem: Installation of rpm created by "make rpm" does not create initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img nor does it update grub.conf. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build source rpm from src.rpm 2. Install src.rpm 3. make mrproper 4. make menuconfig 5. make rpm 6. rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i386.rpm Actual results: Creates system.map and vmlinuz files Expected results: Create system.map, vmlinuz and initrd-xxx.img. Udate grub.conf Additional info:
Also, the "make rpm" command exits with an error if you are appending a custom string to your kernel: Version-Release number of selected component: kernel-source 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 Steps to Reproduce: 1. make menuconfig 2. type in a string under General Setup -> Local version - append to kernel release 3. exit saving changes 4. make rpm Actual results: error: File /usr/src/kernel-2.6.101.771_FC2custom.tar.gz: No such file or directory Expected results: Create an rpm Additional info: I would gladly fix this problem if I could figure out how to download the latest and greatest kernel and submit the patch. :)
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
I'd suggest fixing this upstream. make rpm isn't something that gets any attention in Fedora.