[vbox-dev] Problem building VirtualBox on Fedora 29

[Sérgio Basto]

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 16:26 +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
> Thanks.  Wouldn't that suppress building debug packages altogether
> though?  That is not what we want.

I though the same , I can't find a way to just ignore one debug package
(I haven't much time either) , so for now or we enable all debuginfo
packages [1] or we disable it all .

[1]
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sergiomb/vboxfor23/build/822330

> (On that subject, to anyone reading - we do not provide a server with
> debug packages for various technical reasons, but we can provide them
> individually to anyone who might need them for debugging something.)

More inline answers below.

> Regards
> Michael
> 
> 16.11.18 15:23, Sergio wrote:
> >  %global debug_package %{nil} ? 
> > 
> > Sent from my AndroidEm 16/11/2018 11:54, Michael Thayer <michael.th
> > ayer at oracle.com> escreveu:
> > > 
> > > Hello Sérgio, 
> > > 
> > > Since you probably know more about rpmbuild than I ever will, I
> > > was 
> > > wondering if you have any idea about the following.  As per bug
> > > ticket 
> > > 18113[1], when I try to build using our rpm scripts (done by
> > > running 
> > > "rpm/rules binary" in src/VBox/Installer/linux) 

What changes in this script ? last time I followed Debian package .
I'm asking because is not easy find 6 BETA2 source code and compare
with actual code ...

Thanks

> > > I get a failure due to 
> > > "Empty %files file 
> > > /home/vbox/vbox-
> > > HEAD/src/VBox/Installer/linux/rpmbuild/BUILD/VirtualBox-6.0-
> > > 6.0.0_BETA1_126648_fedora29/debugsourcefiles.list", 
> > > which I have so far not been able to track down.  Is that
> > > anything you 
> > > have seen before? 
> > > 
> > > [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18113 
> > > 
> > > Thanks. 
> > > Regards 
> > > Michael 
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