Reassigning to correct owner, kernel-maint.

Fixed in cvs, will be in next rawhide.

Adding %ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}.img to the %files sections caused build
errors (Can't find file -- which is understandable, as it's not there during the
build process, it gets created at %install time).

How should this be fixed?

I'd suggest this here:

%ghost %config(missingok) %verify(not size md5 mtime) /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}.img

I have noticed that the kernel images are mode "-rw-r--r--", but the initrd
images are "-rw-------". This is strange.

Maybe changing the mode for all to "-rw-------" or "-rw-r--r--"?

Just touch the ghost file in install, it will not get appended to the rpm.

This does the trick for me. Since initrd's are created and destroyed in 
scriptlets, I don't think marking them as %config is worthwhile, not sure about
 %verify.

# rpm -qf /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2686.fc6.img
kernel-2.6.18-1.2686.fc6

cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: kernel-2.6.spec
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/dist/rpms/kernel/devel/kernel-2.6.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.2686
diff -u -r1.2686 kernel-2.6.spec
--- kernel-2.6.spec     21 Sep 2006 19:10:05 -0000      1.2686
+++ kernel-2.6.spec     22 Sep 2006 13:42:35 -0000
@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@
     mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{image_install_path}
     install -m 644 .config $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/config-$KernelVer
     install -m 644 System.map $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/System.map-$KernelVer
+    touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/initrd-$KernelVer.img
     cp $KernelImage $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{image_install_path}/vmlinuz-$KernelVer
     if [ -f arch/$Arch/boot/zImage.stub ]; then
       cp arch/$Arch/boot/zImage.stub $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{image_install_path}/
zImage.stub-$KernelVer || :
@@ -1766,7 +1767,7 @@
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}/extra
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}/updates
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}/weak-updates
-#%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}.img
+%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}.img

 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -1795,7 +1796,7 @@
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}PAE/extra
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}PAE/updates
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}PAE/weak-updates
-#%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}PAE.img
+%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}PAE.img

 %files PAE-devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -1819,7 +1820,7 @@
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}smp/extra
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}smp/updates
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}smp/weak-updates
-#%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}smp.img
+%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}smp.img

 %files smp-devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -1847,7 +1848,7 @@
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}xen/extra
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}xen/updates
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}xen/weak-updates
-#%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}xen.img
+%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}xen.img

 %files xen-devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -1874,7 +1875,7 @@
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}kdump/extra
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}kdump/updates
 /lib/modules/%{KVERREL}kdump/weak-updates
-#%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}kdump.img
+%ghost /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}kdump.img

 %files kdump-devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)

Changes to make initrd images owned by kernel rpms committed, should show up in
a rawhide sometime soon.