rpmbuild fails to unpack and apply patches about kernel source in RHEL6.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Rpmbuild command fails to unpack and apply patches to kernel source package . Are package asciidoc and newt-devel provided?

  # rpm -ivh kernel-**.rpm
  # cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
  # rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel.spec
   error:
        asciidoc is needed by kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686
        newt-devel is needed by kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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