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diff --git a/.kpatch-patch-4_18_0-477_10_1.metadata b/.kpatch-patch-4_18_0-477_10_1.metadata
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+# Set to 1 if building an empty subscription-only package.
+%define empty_package		1
+
+#######################################################
+# Only need to update these variables and the changelog
+%define kernel_ver	4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8
+%define kpatch_ver	0.9.7
+%define rpm_ver		0
+%define rpm_rel		0
+
+%if !%{empty_package}
+# Patch sources below. DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE.
+Source100:		XXX.patch
+#Source101:		YYY.patch
+# End of patch sources. DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE.
+%endif
+
+%define sanitized_rpm_rel	%{lua: print((string.gsub(rpm.expand("%rpm_rel"), "%.", "_")))}
+%define sanitized_kernel_ver   %{lua: print((string.gsub(string.gsub(rpm.expand("%kernel_ver"), '.el8_?\%d?', ""), "%.", "_")))}
+%define kernel_ver_arch        %{kernel_ver}.%{_arch}
+
+Name:		kpatch-patch-%{sanitized_kernel_ver}
+Version:	%{rpm_ver}
+Release:	%{rpm_rel}%{?dist}
+
+%if %{empty_package}
+Summary:	Initial empty kpatch-patch for kernel-%{kernel_ver_arch}
+%else
+Summary:	Live kernel patching module for kernel-%{kernel_ver_arch}
+%endif
+
+Group:		System Environment/Kernel
+License:	GPLv2
+ExclusiveArch:	x86_64 ppc64le
+
+Conflicts:	%{name} < %{version}-%{release}
+
+Provides:	kpatch-patch = %{kernel_ver_arch}
+Provides:	kpatch-patch = %{kernel_ver}
+
+%if !%{empty_package}
+Requires:	systemd
+%endif
+Requires:	kpatch >= 0.6.1-1
+Requires:	kernel-uname-r = %{kernel_ver_arch}
+
+%if !%{empty_package}
+BuildRequires:	patchutils
+BuildRequires:	kernel-devel = %{kernel_ver}
+BuildRequires:	kernel-debuginfo = %{kernel_ver}
+
+# kernel build requirements, generated from:
+#   % rpmspec -q --buildrequires kernel.spec | sort | awk '{print "BuildRequires:\t" $0}'
+# with arch-specific packages moved into conditional block
+BuildRequires:  asciidoc
+BuildRequires:  audit-libs-devel
+BuildRequires:  bash
+BuildRequires:  bc
+BuildRequires:  binutils
+BuildRequires:  binutils-devel
+BuildRequires:  bison
+BuildRequires:  bpftool
+BuildRequires:  bzip2
+BuildRequires:  clang
+BuildRequires:  coreutils
+BuildRequires:  diffutils
+BuildRequires:  dwarves
+BuildRequires:  elfutils
+BuildRequires:  elfutils-devel
+BuildRequires:  findutils
+BuildRequires:  flex
+BuildRequires:  gawk
+BuildRequires:  gcc
+BuildRequires:  gettext
+BuildRequires:  git
+BuildRequires:  gzip
+BuildRequires:  hmaccalc
+BuildRequires:  hostname
+BuildRequires:  java-devel
+BuildRequires:  kabi-dw
+BuildRequires:  kmod
+BuildRequires:  libbabeltrace-devel
+BuildRequires:  libbpf-devel
+BuildRequires:  libcap-devel
+BuildRequires:  libcap-ng-devel
+BuildRequires:  libmnl-devel
+BuildRequires:  libnl3-devel
+BuildRequires:  llvm
+BuildRequires:  m4
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
+BuildRequires:  net-tools
+BuildRequires:  newt-devel
+BuildRequires:  nss-tools
+BuildRequires:  numactl-devel
+BuildRequires:  openssl
+BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
+BuildRequires:  patch
+BuildRequires:  pciutils-devel
+BuildRequires:  perl-Carp
+BuildRequires:  perl-devel
+BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::Embed)
+BuildRequires:  perl-generators
+BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+BuildRequires:  python3-docutils
+BuildRequires:  redhat-rpm-config
+BuildRequires:  rpm-build
+BuildRequires:  rsync
+BuildRequires:  tar
+BuildRequires:  which
+BuildRequires:  xmlto
+BuildRequires:  xz
+BuildRequires:  xz-devel
+BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
+
+%ifarch x86_64
+BuildRequires:	pesign >= 0.10-4
+%endif
+
+%ifarch ppc64le
+BuildRequires:	gcc-plugin-devel
+%endif
+
+Source0:	https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/archive/v%{kpatch_ver}.tar.gz
+
+Source10:	kernel-%{kernel_ver}.src.rpm
+
+# kpatch-build patches
+
+%global _dupsign_opts --keyname=rhelkpatch1
+
+%define builddir	%{_builddir}/kpatch-%{kpatch_ver}
+%define kpatch		%{_sbindir}/kpatch
+%define kmoddir 	%{_usr}/lib/kpatch/%{kernel_ver_arch}
+%define kinstdir	%{_sharedstatedir}/kpatch/%{kernel_ver_arch}
+%define patchmodname	kpatch-%{sanitized_kernel_ver}-%{version}-%{sanitized_rpm_rel}
+%define patchmod	%{patchmodname}.ko
+
+%define _missing_build_ids_terminate_build 1
+%define _find_debuginfo_opts -r
+%undefine _include_minidebuginfo
+%undefine _find_debuginfo_dwz_opts
+
+%description
+This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch
+command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel.  This patch
+module is targeted for kernel-%{kernel_ver}.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n kpatch-%{kpatch_ver} -p1
+
+%build
+kdevdir=/usr/src/kernels/%{kernel_ver_arch}
+vmlinux=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%{kernel_ver_arch}/vmlinux
+
+# kpatch-build
+make -C kpatch-build
+
+# patch module
+for i in %{sources}; do
+	[[ $i == *.patch ]] && patch_sources="$patch_sources $i"
+done
+export CACHEDIR="%{builddir}/.kpatch"
+kpatch-build/kpatch-build --non-replace -n %{patchmodname} -r %{SOURCE10} -v $vmlinux --skip-cleanup $patch_sources || { cat "${CACHEDIR}/build.log"; exit 1; }
+
+
+%install
+installdir=%{buildroot}/%{kmoddir}
+install -d $installdir
+install -m 755 %{builddir}/%{patchmod} $installdir
+
+
+%files
+%{_usr}/lib/kpatch
+
+
+%post
+%{kpatch} install -k %{kernel_ver_arch} %{kmoddir}/%{patchmod}
+chcon -t modules_object_t %{kinstdir}/%{patchmod}
+sync
+if [[ %{kernel_ver_arch} = $(uname -r) ]]; then
+	cver="%{rpm_ver}_%{rpm_rel}"
+	pname=$(echo "kpatch_%{sanitized_kernel_ver}" | sed 's/-/_/')
+
+	lver=$({ %{kpatch} list | sed -nr "s/^${pname}_([0-9_]+)\ \[enabled\]$/\1/p"; echo "${cver}"; } | sort -V | tail -1)
+
+	if [ "${lver}" != "${cver}" ]; then
+		echo "WARNING: at least one loaded kpatch-patch (${pname}_${lver}) has a newer version than the one being installed."
+		echo "WARNING: You will have to reboot to load a downgraded kpatch-patch"
+	else
+		%{kpatch} load %{patchmod}
+	fi
+fi
+exit 0
+
+
+%postun
+%{kpatch} uninstall -k %{kernel_ver_arch} %{patchmod}
+sync
+exit 0
+
+%else
+%description
+This is an empty kpatch-patch package which does not contain any real patches.
+It is only a method to subscribe to the kpatch stream for kernel-%{kernel_ver}.
+
+%files
+%doc
+%endif
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Apr 24 2023 Yannick Cote <ycote@redhat.com> [0-0.el8]
+- An empty patch to subscribe to kpatch stream for kernel-4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8 [2189319]