Bug 212968 - kernel-xen-devel packages all of /xen/
Summary: kernel-xen-devel packages all of /xen/
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Don Zickus
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Reported: 2006-10-30 12:48 UTC by Stephen Tweedie
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0959
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-11-07 19:14:16 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2007:0959 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 2007-11-08 00:47:37 UTC

Description Stephen Tweedie 2006-10-30 12:48:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
The kernel-xen-devel package contains the entire /xen/ build, including all
source and object files. 

kernel-devel is there mainly just to allow modules to be built against a kernel,
 so I can't see why we'd be packaging all these hypervisor files; and it results
in inflated -devel packages:

4.6M Oct 27 06:04 Server/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2739.el5.i686.rpm
13M  Oct 27 06:05 Server/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2739.el5.i686.rpm
Comment 1 Rik van Riel 2006-11-17 15:28:19 UTC 
I am not sure why we include the /xen/ directory AT ALL.

Should it not be enough to only include linux/include/xen/ ?
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2006-11-17 15:41:06 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 4 Rik van Riel 2006-12-14 21:40:26 UTC 
OK, it looks like fixing this is non-trivial for some reason :(

Simply not copying the files in the spec file makes rpmbuild run into a
different error:

RPM build errors:
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.18/xen/arch/x86/acpi/boot.c
   /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.18/xen/arch/x86/apic.c
   /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.18/xen/arch/x86/bitops.c
   /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.18/xen/arch/x86/boot/x86_64.S
   /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.18/xen/arch/x86/compat.c
   /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.18/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
...

This is quite interesting since there does not seem to be anything in the spec
file copying the things to that directory.  Probably some debuginfo build magic
from /usr/lib/rpm.

The question is, why does this not get called (or called differently?) if we do
copy all of xen/ into $BUILDROOT/usr/src/kernel ?
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2007-03-14 22:01:59 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Kernel Team for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release, and has moved to bugzilla 
status POST.
Comment 7 Don Zickus 2007-07-13 16:22:23 UTC 
in kernel-2.6.18-34.el5
(actually before then but..)
Comment 9 Mike Gahagan 2007-08-03 15:23:15 UTC 
/xen/ is now gone from -36.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-07 19:14:16 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0959.html
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