Re: [PATCH] Fix make rpm in 2.6 when using RH9 or Fedora..

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:03:12PM -0800, Thomas Davis wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> >
> >Why do you want to disable the missing file check? As opposed to 
> >providing the file?
> >
> >I personally fix ther problem instead of disabling the check, the list 
> >can be empty, of course.

There is enough files that needs to be cleaned up after a build, no reason to
add more of them.

> >
> 
> There is four options to fix this problem.
> 
> 1) Change the RH9/Fedora macros.
> 2) Add a global entry into my .rpmmacros
> 3) Find and create the missing file (empty, in this case) (ie, do a 'touch 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.3/debugfiles.list' and it will proceed without making 
> the debugfile RPM.)
> 4) Disable it in the specfile, since only RH9/Fedora does this, and 
> Mandrake/SuSE probably doesn't.
> 
> I'm not going to do #1, and I'm not going to do #2, I'll settle for #3 or 
> #4, but #3 now means another file to ship around or create, even if it's 
> empty.

Since this is a fedora/RH9 issue go for option #4. If we need this file in the
future we will add it.
Please forward the original patch to Andrew for inclusion.

	Sam