Rpmbuild How To Know We Are Building Kernel Module Package

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Hi,

When I build a mpt3sas rpm package, I found something interesting:
1. package name is prefixed with kmod- automatically
2. so many requirements are added automatically, most of them are kabi

So my question is rpmbuild how to know he is building kernel module package?
Based on which condition?

Here is mpt3sas.spec:

Name: mpt3sas Version: 26.00.00.00
Release: 1
Summary: RHEL Driver Update Program package

Group: System/Kernel License: GPLv2
URL: http://www.lsilogic.com Distribution: LSI Corporation Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
Source1: %{name}.files Source2: %{name}.conf BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
BuildRequires: %kernel_module_package_buildreqs

%global kernel_version `uname -r`
%kernel_module_package -f %{SOURCE1} default

%description LSI MPT Fusion HBA drivers (12gb SAS)

%prep
%setup set — *
mkdir source mv “$@” source/
mkdir obj

%build for flavor in %flavors_to_build; do rm -rf obj/$flavor cp -r source obj/$flavor make -C %{kernel_source $flavor} M=$PWD/obj/$flavor done

%install export INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
export INSTALL_MOD_DIR=extra/%{name}
for flavor in %flavors_to_build ; do make -C %{kernel_source $flavor} modules_install \
M=$PWD/obj/$flavor
# Cleanup unnecessary kernel-generated module dependency files. find $INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules -iname ‘modules.*’ -exec rm {} \;
done

sed -e s/this_weakupdate/`uname -r | cut -f1 -d-`/ \
../../SOURCES/mpt3sas.conf > \
../../SOURCES/mpt3sas.a mv ../../SOURCES/mpt3sas.a ../../SOURCES/mpt3sas.conf

install -m 644 -D %{SOURCE2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/depmod.d/%{name}.conf install -m 644 -D %{SOURCE2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/modules-load.d/%{name}.conf

%clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%changelog

2 thoughts on - Rpmbuild How To Know We Are Building Kernel Module Package

  • I believe the %kernel_module_package macro defined in
    /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros is used to invoke
    /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool, which provides some overrides.

  • I checked these macros and files, and I think you are right, although I haven’t verify it.

    Thanks.