Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75659
kernel .src.rpm fails to build; unpackaged files message
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:27 EDT
Description of Problem: Trying to recompile my own kernel, I found that the build would fail with a message: error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: (and then a list of hundreds of files, many for other architectures) I figured I had broken something, but the shipping source rpm also fails in the same way. I understand that this (checking for unpackaged files) is a new RPM feature, and I understand the reason behind it, but it seems incorrect to me that the package as shipped by Red Hat does not build on the RPM setup as shipped by Red Hat. Am I expected to disable RPM's unpackaged-files check? Why are you bothering to ship with this check turned on, then, if users will have to turn it off to actually build anything? Is there a way to disable this check in the SPEC file? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-14 rpm-4.1-1.06 How Reproducible: rpm -i <kernel...src.rpm> rpmbuild -ba <spec-file>
Either add to kernel.spec %_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0 or (recommended) clean up $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in %install
You need to install the redhat-rpm-config package to replicate the build environment we use (which in this case happens to be different from the generic rpm defaults).
I fail to see the point in shipping rpm with less-than-useful settings, since redhat-rpm-config is not installed by default. I would bet I'm not the last person who'll be caught off guard by this. But OK, my stuff's working now, so I'm happy. Note that the correct syntax (thanks jbj) to turn this off in the spec file is: %define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0