[LU-7176] Building a Lustre patched EL7 kernel with rpmbuild installs with a firmware snag.

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Priority: Minor
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Dmitry Eremin (Inactive)
• Reporter: Richard Henwood (Inactive)

Description

After following the instructions to build a EL7 kernel with Lustre kernel patches described here for EL6:

https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8126821

The resulting kernel is reluctant to install cleanly:

rpm -ivh ~build/kernel/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-3.10.0.lustre-1.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
	file /lib/firmware/emi62/bitstream.fw from install of kernel-3.10.0.lustreopa-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20140911-0.1.git365e80c.el7.noarch

The install can be completed using --force:

rpm -ivh --force ~build/kernel/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-3.10.0.lustre-1.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:kernel-3.10.0.lustre        ################################# [100%]