Bug#992694: reprotest: kernel variation makes ldconfig abort with message "FATAL: Kernel too old"

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:
> While trying to debug
> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/issues/191, I found
> out that the kernel variation makes ldconfig abort with the following
> message: "FATAL: Kernel too old"

> This behavour is partially documented in the manpage under:
> 
> ```
> Kernel
> ------
> 
> The "kernel" variation is currently not working for RPM based packages.
> While building with this variation enabled, the tool `/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-ldconfig`
> compains about `FATAL: kernel too old` and aborts the build.
> ```
> 
> However all version of ldconfig (at least since 2017) require a kernel
> 3.2, not just the RPM ldconfig.
> 
> I think the documentation should be updated to warn users about ldconfig
> not working in all cases.

What would you say about this patch:

|--- a/README.rst
|+++ b/README.rst
|@@ -378,9 +378,9 @@ mechanism to vary the system time.
| Kernel
| ------
|
|-The "kernel" variation is currently not working for RPM based packages. While
|-building with this variation enabled, the tool `/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-ldconfig`
|-compains about `FATAL: kernel too old` and aborts the build.
|+The "kernel" variation is currently not working for RPM based packages and other
|+build process requiring `ldconfig`.  While building with this variation enabled,
|+`ldconfig` complains about `FATAL: kernel too old` and aborts the build.
|
| Avoid sudo(1) password prompts
| ==============================


Besides potentially better identifying which versions of ldconfig are
effectively broken, I don't think we could do much else.

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