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

[Baptiste Beauplat]

On 2021/08/26 04:25 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 
> 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
> | ==============================

Looks good to me.

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

IIRC, the change was introduced by

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/commit/2d7aa68d5d30a203b61b551432efcefac7413885#98f7bc9994884d56cdc1b30b364e50f8800dbc07_147_147

which was packaged with glibc-2.25.

I agree. A possibility would be to introduce a '--uname-3.2' to setarch
and I don't think, for the number of packages using ldconfig at build
time, this is worth the trouble (specially since upstream might not be
interested by it).

-- 
Baptiste Beauplat - lyknode
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