linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, resend] build: fix broken kernel RPM source symlink

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Message-ID: <55D49D6B.7050800@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:14:51 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Espen Carlsen <ec@...ascale.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale.com>,
	Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] build: fix broken kernel RPM source symlink

On 2015-06-30 13:47, Espen Carlsen wrote:
> Fix the 'rpm-pkg' makefile target to always generate the correct
> /usr/src/kernel/<ver> symlink; this fails on non-RPM-native systems
> eg Ubuntu.
> 
> On a non-RPM-native system, the symlink created by rpmbuild points to
> the source tree, so the ln -sf commands to overwrite build and source will
> create a new link inside the directory pointed to by the build and source
> symlinks. This will break the -devel.rpm, as the build and source symlinks
> will point to non existing directories after installing them.

Which version of rpm do you have installed? $RPM_BUILD_ROOT should be
deleted and created empty by rpmbuild. If you have stale files in
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT, you will likely have bigger problem than this.

Michal
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