[elrepo] rebuilding kmod-joydev package from SRPM

[Andrew Simpson]

While I haven't yet been able to test functionality, The installation of
kmod-joydev-0.0.2 on a RHEL 7.3 system via kickstart was successful.  It
doesn't appear that any of the source has changed, so I don't suspect any
surprises there.

Andrew Simpson

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Andrew Simpson <simpsonar77 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Awesome thanks!  I'll test them tomorrow on my production system.
>
> On Feb 5, 2017 11:30 AM, "Phil Perry" <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
>> On 03/02/17 17:01, Andrew Simpson wrote:
>>
>>> I recently submitted a bug against kmod-joydev for
>>> kernel-3.10.0.514.el7.x86_64.  However, while waiting for that package
>>> to
>>> be updated against the latest kernel,  I thought I'd try rebuilding the
>>> package.
>>>
>>> I've modified the spec file to use the .514 kernel, updated my system
>>> (el7)
>>> with the proper kernel packages, and made sure the entire system is at
>>> RHEL
>>> 7.3.
>>>
>>> I have only rebuilt a few kernel modules in the past, so I'm unsure of
>>> what
>>> I might be doing wrong.
>>>
>>> However, when I build using rpmbuild -ba joydev-kmod.spec, I get the
>>> following error:
>>>
>>> Finding  Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)...
>>>  error: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or  '/':
>>>
>>>
>>> There's a bit more information I will have to add to a follow up email
>>> as I'm not on the system in question.
>>>
>>> Thank you for any suggestions/help!
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I've rebuilt the package for you against the RHEL 7.3 kernel (kernel-
>> 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64) which should hopefully fix this issue.
>>
>> The following packages have been pushed to the elrepo testing repository
>> and should be available shortly:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el7/x86_64/RPMS/ [^]
>>
>> kmod-joydev-0.0-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> joydev-kmod-0.0-2.el7.elrepo.src.rpm
>>
>> Please would you test them and report back if they work as expected for
>> you.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
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