Re: kernel 5.9.300 spec file has missing executable gpio-watch in tools file section

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:40 PM stan via kernel
<kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:54:12 -0500
> Justin Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It shouldn't be a merge request anyway, kernel-5.9.0-300 has
> > nothing to do
> > with ark.  It is based on the F32 spec, with most of the RHELisms
> > stripped out. Anything relating to the build of kernel-tools is
> > bitrot because Fedora doesn't build kernel-tools from the kernel srpm
> > or kernel.spec. This will likely change with the 5.10 rebases as we
> > move to a src-git model, though still entirely possible that stable
> > updates will fail on tools because we just don't build it.
> > kernel-tools.spec is the appropriate place to build gpio-watch in
> > Fedora.
>
> OK, I only mentioned it because the last 5.9 development kernel didn't
> have the issue.  From what you say above I think that is because
> development kernels and stable kernels use different spec files, right?
> I like to update everything in synch, kernel, headers, tools, etc.
> whether they need it or not.  I guess I'll have to start building them
> separately from the src.rpms if the kernel spec gets too out of date.
>

Right, the 5.9 development kernel was built from rawhide, which does
include these things because ELN needs them. The 5.9.0-300 is in a
stable branch where all of that is stripped. I don't just copy the
spec back to old releases, I only move bring back patches, configs,
and filter changes generally.

Justin
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