vfat filesystem "fix" breaks rpm kernel install on ia64

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:00:32PM -0500, Doug Chapman wrote:
> Actually I came up with what I think is a cleaner fix for this.  Since
> the default file permission on files on vfat are 755 anyway if the
> kernel is mode 755 rpm doesn't complain.
> 
> Anybody have thoughts on this specfile change?  I build this as a
> scratch build on our ia64 koji server and it installs cleanly.
> 
> - Doug
> 
> *** kernel.spec.bad	2008-02-28 19:58:55.000000000 -0500
> --- kernel.spec	2008-02-28 21:39:57.000000000 -0500
> *************** BuildKernel() {
> *** 1301,1306 ****
> --- 1301,1310 ----
>       $CopyKernel $KernelImage \
>       		$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{image_install_path}/$InstallName-$KernelVer
>   
> + %ifarch ia64
> +     chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{image_install_path}/$InstallName-$KernelVer
> + %endif
> + 
>       mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules/$KernelVer
>       make -s ARCH=$Arch INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT modules_install KERNELRELEASE=$KernelVer
>   %ifarch %{vdso_arches}


There are systems with EFI32 and EFI64 out there, that aren't ia64,
but that will likewise be dropping files into a vfat file system.

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux