Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (135 mails)

[James Oakley <jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 10 August 2007 1:21 pm, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:34:31 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > the kernel-*.spec files contain a lot of hardcoded strings, such as
> > 2.6.22.1 for what's currently cooking. This causes a major pain when
> > trying to bump the version by oneself. All occurrences need to be
> > replaced by more-or-less blunt scripts (simple perl -pe 's///'), since
> > the .in files are not available. If these could please be added to the
> > kernel-source pack, that would greatly simplify work.
>
> Well, most of the scripts need direct access to our internal CVS server.
> So just putting them somewhere doesn't help. Although this is something I
> already have on my to-do list.

I ended up writing my own script to build kernel spec files from templates, 
which I have attached.

Basically, I made 3 spec templates from the specs I found in the buildservice, 
using @@VARIABLENAME@@ where I wanted substitutions:

kernel-source.spec.in
kernel-binary.spec.in
kernel-syms.spec.in

Then I created a bunch of files containing flavor-specific variables:

kernel-bigsmp.vars
kernel-debug.vars
kernel-default.vars
kernel-kdump.vars
kernel-ppc64.vars
kernel-s390.vars
kernel-um.vars
kernel-vanilla.vars
kernel-xenpae.vars
kernel-xen.vars


Here's the contents of kernel-bigsmp.vars, for example:

FLAVOR="bigsmp"

EXCLUSIVEARCHES="%ix86"

SUMMARY="Kernel with PAE Support"

DESCRIPTION="This kernel supports up to 64GB of main memory. It requires 
Physical\n\
Addressing Extensions (PAE), which were introduced with the Pentium Pro\n\
processor."



Hope that helps,

-- 
James Oakley
jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx