[Freeipmi-users] Build of freeipmi RPM package fails with missing bmc-watchdog file

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

The freeipmi RPM package available for CentOS 7 via EPEL is quite outdated 
(1.5.7).  So I wanted to build my own RPM package of freeipmi 1.6.11 from 
the source tar-ball.

I unpacked the source tar-ball on a CentOS 7.9 machine and ran 
./configure, then created a new tar-ball from this.  Then I build the package:

$ rpmbuild -ta freeipmi-1.6.11.tar.gz

Unfortunately, the build fails with the following lines showing a missing 
or misplaced bmc-watchdog file:

+ mkdir -p 
/home/niflheim/ohni/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/freeipmi-1.6.11-1.el7.x86_64//etc/rc.d/init.d/
+ [[ /etc/init.d != \/\e\t\c\/\r\c\.\d\/\i\n\i\t\.\d ]]
+ mv 
/home/niflheim/ohni/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/freeipmi-1.6.11-1.el7.x86_64//etc/init.d/bmc-watchdog 
/home/niflheim/ohni/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/freeipmi-1.6.11-1.el7.x86_64//etc/rc.d/init.d/bmc-watchdog
mv: cannot stat 
'/home/niflheim/ohni/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/freeipmi-1.6.11-1.el7.x86_64//etc/init.d/bmc-watchdog': 
No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XUm2if (%install)


RPM build errors:
    bogus date in %changelog: Wed May 28 2021 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
1.7.0
    bogus date in %changelog: Mon May 3 2012 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
1.2.1
    bogus date in %changelog: Tue Sep 29 2008 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
0.7.0
    bogus date in %changelog: Sat May 21 2008 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
0.7.0
    bogus date in %changelog: Tue Mar 27 2008 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
0.6.0
    bogus date in %changelog: Wed Nov 19 2007 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
0.5.0
    bogus date in %changelog: Wed Nov 19 2007 Phil Knirsch 
<pknirsch@redhat.com> 0.5.0
    bogus date in %changelog: Fri Feb 28 2007 Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> 
0.4.beta0-1
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XUm2if (%install)

Question: How can we fix this error?

Actually, the Fedora source RPM from 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/freeipmi can be rebuilt correctly. 
Maybe some Fedora patches could be back-ported to FreeIPMI?

Thanks,
Ole

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Ole Holm Nielsen
PhD, Senior HPC Officer
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark