[ATrpms-users] error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl ....

[Dan Krejsa]

Hi,

Thanks Alex.  I did have to prepare a kernel tree (using rpmbuild,
in fact) and do a kernel build even when using the raw ipw3945/ieee80211
sources from sourceforge, but I evidently don't have the full story
for rpmbuild kernel module builds.  How should I interpret that
'Unknown tag: %kmdl blah-blah' error?

- Dan

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 12:30 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:21:24PM -0700, Dan Krejsa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was able to get what I needed by dispensing with the source
> > RPM build method for the ipw3945/ieee80211 code, and downloading
> > the (non RPM) sources from sourceforge and building manually.
> > 
> > At present I'll assume that atrpms source RPMs (at least for
> > kernel modules) are provided for reference but are not necessarily
> > intended to be buildable via rpmbuild.  If that's incorrect and
> > I'm just doing something wrong (quite possible, as I don't know
> > a lot about RPM), please let me know.
> 
> The src.rpm as they stand are for power users who are willing to dive
> into kernel related build stuff. You must prepare a source
> tree and .config for the packages to build against.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > - Dan
> > 
> > On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 11:33 -0700, Dan Krejsa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I apologize if this is an old newbie question, but I couldn't
> > > find a FAQ. I'm using Fedora Core 5 and was trying to
> > > build the ipw3945-1.1.0-12_pre2.rhfc5.at.src.rpm source RPM.
> > > 
> > > [dlkrejsa at clifford SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bp ipw3945.spec
> > > error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl ipw3945
> > > 
> > > I gather I'm missing some RPM macros.  What should I do?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > >  - Dan