From: Don Zickus on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1786#note_951720936 @hertonrk-rh @prarit @jmflinuxtx To answer a variety of questions. Yes srpm processes the configs. It kinda has to otherwise what is rpmbuild going to use to build the kernel? :-) Why is this an issue now? It popped up with my MR last week actually fixing how this works (otherwise the dep was only rpmbuild). Some folks do not want to install the full list of buildreqs just to generate a srpm and upload it. Especially for users on Fedora trying to build a RHEL-X srpm and don't want to have to install obsoleted or missing RHEL-X buildreqs (system-sb-certs, llvm- tools, etc). As for 'dnf builddep kernel' that could work too in some cases. One quirk with that approach is it needs to match the kernel in development, so a RHEL kernel on a Fedora distro may not work. But we can advertise this too if we want. I am also looking at the docs here: https://cki-project.gitlab.io/kernel- ark/#cloning-the-repository should either be auto-generated or told to use 'dnf builddep kernel'. I am working with COPR and they didn't have an easy way to install the packages necessary to build the srpm other than guessing. I am trying to improve the user experience git clone <kernel repo> make dist-srpmbuildreqs-check | sudo dnf install (??) make dist-srpm koji build or something like that. IOW there is a gap here that I am trying to address with a consistent story. Something that isn't complicated (yeah, this MR leans toward complicated). Thoughts? _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
