Solution: Re: Could not open debufiles.list on Redhat 9 kernel

[Jay Denebeim]

On 13 Jul 2003, Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> Yep .. all -b switches have been moved from rpm to rpmbuild.

I'm aware of that.  There's a better way BTW that's documented in the RPM 
man page.  There's a file called /etc/popt that you can put a bunch of 
macros in to cause rpm to call rpmbuild.  This is a much cleaner 
implementation since it works for all of the packages that use RPM rather 
than just the kernel.

> So if you edit the Makefile, replacing call of "rpm" with "rpmbuild" it
> works.

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with my problem.  That was something 
that happened in redhat 8 not 9.  The redhat 9 feature creates a debug 
package for every package you create, at least it tries to.  This 
aparently doesn't work for the kernel.  I don't know exactly what the 
mechinisim is.

Anyway, I got a helpful e-mail from a redhat person.  I'm still compliling 
the kernel now, but what he told me is you need to change 

%_enable_debug_packages 1

to 

%_enable_debug_packages %{nil}

not 0.  In /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros

If you have this problem try it and see if it works.

Thanks to everyone for all the help
Jay

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