from a drug-induced fog of semi-coherence, here's what seems to be an obvious bug in "make rpm-pkg". the tail end of the output: Processing files: kernel-2.6.25rc200114g9a4c854dirty-1 error: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.25rc200114g9a4c854dirty-root/lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2-00114-g9a4c854-dirty Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.25rc200114g9a4c854dirty-root error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/build /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.alias /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.ccwmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.ieee1394map /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.inputmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.isapnpmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.ofmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.order /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.pcimap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.seriomap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.symbols /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.usbmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/source RPM build errors: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.25rc200114g9a4c854dirty-root/lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2-00114-g9a4c854-dirty Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/build /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.alias /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.ccwmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.ieee1394map /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.inputmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.isapnpmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.ofmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.order /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.pcimap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.seriomap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.symbols /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/modules.usbmap /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc2/source make[1]: *** [rpm-pkg] Error 1 make: *** [rpm-pkg] Error 2 the problem seems obvious -- the "name" of the eventual package is designed to be some variation of the output of "git describe", which could very well look like, well, "2.6.25rc200114g9a4c854dirty-root" but when rpmbuild is trying to create the package, i'm guessing it whacks off everything after the second "-" since those symbols mean something special to rpmbuild. thus, you get the truncated directory name of "2.6.25-rc2", which doesn't match what the packaging script is expecting, and it chokes. just need to make all those names consistent, i'm guessing. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html