> "miguel" == Miguel Beccari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
sorry for the delay, I think that stew & jeff already found
that deffining %build_BOOT to 0 fixed the problem. I just
forgot to answer you, thanks for the tip.
Later, Juan "answering very, very old mail" Quintela.
miguel> Infact I updated from lastest cooker src.rpms the folling:
miguel> rpm, libbinutils,
miguel> fileutils, findutils, mkinitrd, sgml-tools, ghostscript.
>>
miguel> Then I downloaded kernel-2.4.17.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
>>
miguel> I did some few hacks to make it works on mdk ppc and now -
miguel> ladies and
miguel> gentlemen -...
>>
miguel> [root@serverg3 SRPMS]# uname -a
miguel> Linux serverg3 2.4.17-MACINTOSH #1 ven feb 1 17:54:50 CET
miguel> 2002 ppc unknown
>>
miguel> Wow!!! Juan Quintela aswers a mail of mine... I really appreciate your
miguel> work ok kernel rpms.
>> If you can send me what things did you changed, I can integrate them
>> in the Mandrake kernel. Notice that I don't have an easy access to
>> one ppc machine, I will put here the srpm for people to test (I don't
>> have an easy access to one ppc machine right now).
>>
miguel> Ok.
miguel> I experienced theese errors (2) with macros:
miguel> 1) rpm --rebuild kernel-2.4.17.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
miguel> Installing kernel-2.4.17.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
miguel> error: parse error in expression
miguel> error: /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec:1229: parseExpressionBoolean
miguel> returns -1
miguel> I commented the spec as follow:
miguel> 1229 #%if %build_BOOT
miguel> 1230 #CreateKernel BOOT
miguel> 1231 #%endif
miguel> and then the error was:
miguel> rpm -bb ../SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec
miguel> error: parse error in expression
miguel> error: /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec:1632: parseExpressionBoolean
miguel> returns -1
miguel> and I commented the following lines:
miguel> 1632 %if %build_BOOT
miguel> 1633 %files -n kernel-BOOT-%{mdkversion}
miguel> 1634 %defattr(-,root,root)
miguel> 1635 %{_bootdir}/config-%{KVERREL}BOOT
miguel> 1636 %{_bootdir}/vmlinuz-%{KVERREL}BOOT
miguel> 1637 %{_bootdir}/System.map-%{KVERREL}BOOT
miguel> 1638 %dir %{_modulesdir}/%{KVERREL}BOOT/
miguel> 1639 %{_modulesdir}/%{KVERREL}BOOT/kernel
miguel> 1640 %{_modulesdir}/%{KVERREL}BOOT/build
miguel> 1641 %{_modulesdir}/%{KVERREL}BOOT/pcmcia
miguel> 1642 %{_modulesdir}/%{KVERREL}BOOT/modules.*
miguel> 1643 %endif
miguel> This happens with
miguel> build BOOT 0
miguel> and
miguel> build BOOT 1
miguel> 2) Then I experienced a dependency error.
miguel> This happens with
miguel> build doc 1
miguel> The compilation starts and goes on without errors
miguel> but when it is near to finish (and the macro begin to tar the *.ps
miguel> files) an error occurs and the compilation is aborted.
miguel> I cannot remember what program was missed, but it was from
miguel> sgml-tools.
miguel> The *ps files were not created (because sgml-tools were not installed),
miguel> and so the macro failed.
miguel> I suppose it is necessary to include a build require: sgml-tools.
miguel> Theese are my 'few hacks' to make the src.rpm working.
miguel> Best regards,
miguel> Miguel Beccari
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