One of the arguments of /sbin/depmod set by kmodtool is wrong.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • WARNING and FATAL are displayed when I uninstall a kmod package that I made.

      # rpm -e kmod-sample-1.0.0-1.i686
      WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.32-37.el6: No such file or directory
      FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.32-37.el6/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
    
  • The cause is that at %post section in kmodtool the second argument of /sbin/depmod is "${verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}", but at %postun section it's "${verrel}${variant}".

    -----/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool
            120 %post          -n kmod-${kmod_name}${dashvariant}
            121 if [ -e "/boot/System.map-${verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}" ]; then
      *---->122     /sbin/depmod -aeF "/boot/System.map-${verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}" "${
            verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}" > /dev/null || :
            123 fi
            124
    ---------------        
            139 %postun        -n kmod-${kmod_name}${dashvariant}
            140 if [ -e "/boot/System.map-${verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}" ]; then
      *---->141     /sbin/depmod -aeF "/boot/System.map-${verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}" "${
            verrel}${variant}" > /dev/null || :
            142 fi
    ---------------
    
  • Therefore, at %postun section in kmodtool I'd like you to change the second argument to "${verrel}.%{_target_cpu}${dotvariant}".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 beta2
  • Architecture: x86,intel64
  • redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-20.el6

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