Hi Levi,
Thanks. Great timing. I was going to release FreeIPMI 0.4.2 today :-)
It'll be in there.
Al
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:04 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote:
> Here's a message and patch from Troy Telford, one of the LNXI system
> software engineers in charge of maintaining our HiPer package
> repository:
>
> Attatched is the patch I made to the freeipmi .specfile.
>
> The problem is pretty simple: on Red Hat distros, the macro
> %{_initrddir}
> evaluates to /etc/rc.d/init.d
>
> On SuSE distros, it evaluates to /etc/init.d/
>
> So, this means on SuSE distros (and others, I'm sure), when it tries to
> move
> files from /etc/init.d to %{_initrddir}, it refuses to do anything and
> exits
> with an error. (As both the source and destination are the same file).
>
> This patch adds a simple conditional to check if %{_initrddir} !
> = /etc/init.d
> before doing anything.
>
> ---
> diff --git a/freeipmi/SPECS/freeipmi.spec b/freeipmi/SPECS/freeipmi.spec
> index d2a9019..e3a5fe2 100644
> --- a/freeipmi/SPECS/freeipmi.spec
> +++ b/freeipmi/SPECS/freeipmi.spec
> @@ -75,8 +80,11 @@ mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> DESTDIR="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" make install
> # fix coherance problems with associated script filenames
> mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_initrddir}/
> +if [[ "%{_sysconfdir}/init.d" != "%{_initrddir}" ]]
> +then
> mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_initrddir}/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
> mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/freeipmi-ipmidetectd
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_initrddir}/freeipmi-ipmidetectd
> +fi
> rm -f %{buildroot}%{_infodir}/dir
> # kludge to get around rpmlint complaining about 0 length semephore
> file
> echo freeipmi > %{buildroot}/var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> @@ -246,6 +254,8 @@ fi
> %{_mandir}/man8/ipmidetectd.8*
>
> %changelog
> +* Wed Aug 01 2007 Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.4.beta0
> +- Some package cleanup so it builds on SLES
> * Wed Jun 13 2007 Phil Knirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.4.beta0-1
> - Some package cleanup and split of configuration and initscript
> * Fri Feb 28 2007 Albert Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.4.beta0-1
--
Albert Chu
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925-422-5311
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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