Re: [PATCH 0/2] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Address -debuginfo build regression with RPM < 4.20.0

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 06:42:27AM -0500, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 09:25:25AM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > Oh, yeah, I just tried the following change on top of commit cee73b1e840c
> > ("Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux"), so without this
> > series applied:
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> > index 0f1c8de1bd95..86ca327ebccf 100644
> > --- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> > +++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> > @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ against the %{version} kernel package.
> >  %if %{with_debuginfo}
> >  %package debuginfo
> >  Summary: Debug information package for the Linux kernel
> > +AutoReqProv: no
> >  %description debuginfo
> >  This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from the
> >  %{version} package.
> >
> > And I'm able to generate RPMs too without errors!
>
> Great, thanks for confirming! Does it still work with:
>
>  AutoReq: 0
>  AutoProv: 1

Yep, I tried this (compared to the previous email, just to be sure I get 
you):

diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
index 86ca327ebccf..f5d0fa34c51b 100644
--- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
+++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ against the %{version} kernel package.
 %if %{with_debuginfo}
 %package debuginfo
 Summary: Debug information package for the Linux kernel
-AutoReqProv: no
+AutoReq: 0
+AutoProv: 1
 %description debuginfo
 This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from the
 %{version} package.

And I'm able to generate RPMs without errors.


> as I notice that is what the %_debuginfo_template in /usr/lib/rpm/macros
> uses by default. I suspect that the automatic requires is where things
> explodes and I think we do want the automatic provides because I believe
> that is how the "this package provides this debug build ID" generation
> happens.

Oh I see, I also have:

    #	Template for debug information sub-package.
    %_debuginfo_template \
    %package debuginfo\
    Summary: Debug information for package %{name}\
    Group: Development/Debug\
    AutoReq: 0\
    AutoProv: 1\
    %description debuginfo\
    This package provides debug information for package %{name}.\
    Debug information is useful when developing applications that use this\
    package or when debugging this package.\
    %files debuginfo -f debugfiles.list\
    %{nil}

So I guess I tested the right thing and it works ;-)

Thanks,
Stefano