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Bug 700920

Summary:	[RHEL6] DUP kmod package missing module-init-tools dependency
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Travis Gummels <tgummels>
Component:	driver-update-program	Assignee:	Jon Masters <jcm>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Chao Yang <chyang>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	bzeranski, jwest, qcai
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Travis Gummels 2011-04-29 19:40:10 UTC

Description of problem:

According to section 2.4.1 of the Driver Update Program manual:

http://people.redhat.com/jcm/el6/dup/docs/dup_book.pdf

you need a handful of packages to build drivers:

• createrepo (required when building Driver Update Disks)
• kabi-whitelists (required as a reference for official kABI)
• kabi-yum-plugins (optional enforcing plugin to mandate kABI)
• kernel-devel (older releases of RHEL had multiple possible kernel ”vari-
ants” such as kernel-xen-devel, but these do not exist in RHEL 6).
• redhat-rpm-config

It appears that if you don't also have module-init-tools installed find-provides.ksym silently fails (so your kmod package doesn't require the kernel bits).

We should probably add module-init-tools to the list of required packages or maybe make it a dependency for kernel-devel or something like that.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Attempt rpmbuild of DUP package on RHEL 6
  
Actual results:

find-provides.ksym silently fails (so your kmod package doesn't require and kernel bits)

Expected results:

No failure.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jon Masters 2011-05-26 21:29:05 UTC

There should be no way that module-init-tools is not installed, since it is required for basic system operation. The only way it would be missing is if you're building inside a chroot or other environment, which we don't support. You can make it work, in that case, by simply including module-init-tools amongst the other packages you are pulling in.