there are a few bugs in the packaging targets, both with local
packaging and remote packaging if you've used "O=" for your kernel
build. first, let's consider local builds.
consider the packaging makefile scripts/package/Makefile. these
early lines look entirely superfluous (nothing uses the variable
TAR_IGNORE):
...
# Ignore the following files/directories during tar operation
TAR_IGNORE := --exclude SCCS --exclude BitKeeper --exclude .svn --exclude CVS
...
next, related to my earlier email, if your kernel source happens to
be in its own filesystem so that there's a "lost+found" directory, any
"tar" operation is going to fail due to lack of permissions for that
directory:
$ make rpm-pkg
...
find: ./lost+found: Permission denied
...
tar: kernel-2.6.25rc200015g1309d4e/./lost+found: Cannot open:
Permission denied
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
make[1]: *** [rpm-pkg] Error 2
make: *** [rpm-pkg] Error 2
$
it seems to be sufficient to apply the following patch:
diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile
index 5e32607..d3307f1 100644
--- a/scripts/package/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/package/Makefile
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $(objtree)/kernel.spec: $(MKSPEC) $(srctree)/Makefile
rpm-pkg rpm: $(objtree)/kernel.spec FORCE
$(MAKE) clean
$(PREV) ln -sf $(srctree) $(KERNELPATH)
- $(PREV) tar -cz $(RCS_TAR_IGNORE) -f $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz $(KERNELPATH)/.
+ $(PREV) tar -cz --exclude lost+found $(RCS_TAR_IGNORE) -f $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz $(KERNELPATH)/.
$(PREV) rm $(KERNELPATH)
set -e; \
but it's probable that a number of other operations need to take a
"lost+found" directory into account; that is, anything involving
"tar".
observations on remote packaging to come.
rday
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