From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041123 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: ... bash-3.00$ rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.src.rpm Installing cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.src.rpm warning: user buildcentos does not exist - using root warning: group buildcentos does not exist - using root warning: user buildcentos does not exist - using root warning: group buildcentos does not exist - using root Building target platforms: i686 Building for target i686 error: Failed build dependencies: kernel-hugemem = 2.6.9-11.EL is needed by cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.i686 bash-3.00$ ... However, I succeeded in building the package without kernel-hugemem installed: bash-3.00$ rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 --nodeps cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.src.rpm Installing cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.src.rpm warning: user buildcentos does not exist - using root warning: group buildcentos does not exist - using root warning: user buildcentos does not exist - using root warning: group buildcentos does not exist - using root Building target platforms: i686 Building for target i686 Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97336 ... Requires(post): /bin/sh Requires: /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELhugemem kernel-hugemem = 2.6.9-11.EL Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0-buildroot Wrote: /home/speech/bradyc/rpms/RPMS/i686/cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/speech/bradyc/rpms/RPMS/i686/cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-36.0.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/speech/bradyc/rpms/RPMS/i686/cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-36.0.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/speech/bradyc/rpms/RPMS/i686/cman-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-36.0.i686.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16117 + umask 022 + cd /home/speech/bradyc/rpms/BUILD + cd cman-kernel-2.6.9-36 + rm -rf /var/tmp/cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0-buildroot + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16117 + umask 022 + cd /home/speech/bradyc/rpms/BUILD + rm -rf cman-kernel-2.6.9-36 + exit 0 bash-3.00$ What's really required is kernel-hugemem-devel, and I *do* have that installed. But even that requirement isn't quite right - it should depend on the value of buildhugemem, but doesn't. In fact, I think these three BuildRequires are all wrong - you should be able to be running any kernel at all (even one not installed via RPM), as long as you have the correct kernel-*devel RPMS installed. ... BuildRequires: kernel = %{kernel_version} BuildRequires: kernel-smp = %{kernel_version} BuildRequires: kernel-hugemem = %{kernel_version} ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See above, just try to rebuild the package without any of the three kernel RPMs installed. Additional info:
Reassign to Chris as he's IC the build system.
You are correct, requiring that the kernel package be installed for the build is not necessary. Future releases will not contain that requirement. Unfortunately the way our build system works we cannot have BuildRequires inside of if statements (the if statements get ignored).