Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 620699
s390x mkinitrd lacks requirement on dmraid
Last modified: 2012-02-21 00:33:50 EST
# mkinitrd /tmp/initrd.img 2.6.18-94.el5 WARNING: using /tmp for temporary files cp: cannot stat `/sbin/dmraid.static': No such file or directory To reproduce, run mkinitrd without dmraid package installed on s390x. I'm unsure of the history here, but it appears mkinitrd's dmraid support initially excluded the s390x arch, but that appears to have changed in dmraid in 2006: * Thu Aug 17 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 1.0.0.rc11-FC6.3 - No more excludearch for s390/s390x Suggested fix is to remove the %ifnarch around Requires: dmraid in mkinitrd.spec. People more familiar with mkinitrd/dmraid history might think of other places in the code where this arch-specific behaviour applies.
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mkinitrd from RHEL-5.8 Snapshot 2 depends on dmraid: [root@rtt7 ~]# rpm -q mkinitrd mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-75.el5 [root@rtt7 ~]# rpm -q --requires mkinitrd | grep dmraid dmraid [root@rtt7 ~]# There is no error message when building initramdisk on a system with minimal package set. Moving to VERIFIED.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0157.html