On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 3:21 AM Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It's a useful property for kernel rpms produced from the kernel source
> tree to behave somewhat as drop-in replacements for the kernel rpms
> shipped by distributions. For example, when building Linux OS images,
> this allows replacing the distribution kernel rpm packages with kernel
> rpm packages produced from the kernel source tree without having to modify
> the OS image recipes. Instead, by just adding an extra repository containing
> the kernel rpms built from the kernel source tree, the OS image build process
> will prefer these rpms over the distribution ones if they're of a newer version.
>
> To make this work, let's add various extra Provides to the kernel
> rpm spec so that it provides more of the common kernel rpm package names
> used by the CentOS/Fedora distribution kernel rpm packages.
I did not check these one by one, but kerne.spec in Fedora
specifies '= <version>'.
So, I guess this patch will not work equivalently.
> ---
> scripts/package/kernel.spec | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> index 42447c5fd7ac..61a151026afc 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> +++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> @@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ Source0: linux.tar.gz
> Source1: config
> Source2: diff.patch
> Provides: kernel-%{KERNELRELEASE}
> +Provides: kernel-%{_target_cpu}
> +Provides: kernel-uname-r
> +Provides: kernel-core
> +Provides: kernel-modules
> +Provides: kernel-modules-uname-r
> +Provides: kernel-modules-%{_target_cpu}
> +Provides: kernel-modules-internal
> +Provides: kernel-modules-internal-uname-r
> +Provides: kernel-modules-internal-%{_target_cpu}
> +Provides: kernel-modules-extra
> +Provides: kernel-modules-extra-uname-r
> +Provides: kernel-modules-extra-%{_target_cpu}
> +Provides: kernel-modules-core
> +Provides: kernel-modules-core-uname-r
> +Provides: kernel-modules-core-%{_target_cpu}
> BuildRequires: bc binutils bison dwarves
> BuildRequires: (elfutils-libelf-devel or libelf-devel) flex
> BuildRequires: gcc make openssl openssl-devel perl python3 rsync
> --
> 2.47.0
>
>
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
