Re: [PATCH] Add vmlinux to kernel rpm - updated description

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:10:57PM -0800, Josh Hunt wrote:
> Resending with updated description:
> 
> We are building an automated system to test kernels weekly and need to
> provide an rpm to our QA dept.  We would like to use the ability to create
> kernel rpms already in the kernel's Makefile, but need the vmlinux file
> included in the rpm for later debugging.  This patch adds a compressed vmlinux to
> the kernel rpm when doing a make rpm-pkg or binrpm-pkg and upon install
> places the vmlinux file in /boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, but...

> 
> Index: linux-2.6.28/scripts/package/mkspec
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.28.orig/scripts/package/mkspec    2008-12-24
> 15:26:37.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.28/scripts/package/mkspec    2009-01-21
> 16:53:03.000000000 -0800
> @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ echo "%endif"
>  echo 'cp System.map $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE"
> 
>  echo 'cp .config $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/config-$KERNELRELEASE"
> +
> +echo "%ifnarch ppc64"
> +echo 'cp vmlinux vmlinux.orig'
why is this relevant for all architectures except ppc64?
This is not addressed neither in a comment nor in the changelog.

	Sam
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