linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf tools: Make target to generate self contained source tarball

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Date:	Sat, 29 May 2010 10:40:13 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf tools: Make target to generate self contained
 source tarball

Em Sat, May 29, 2010 at 09:29:48AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg escreveu:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:53:57PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Hi Michal, Sam,

> > 	Are you OK with with this change?

> No - I do not like it :-)

> But I like the concept.

I saw the scripts/package, but felt it wasn't quite there where it fits,
because there all existing cases build binary packages and this is
purely a source package, guess I was wrong then :-)

> We have some minimal infrastructure to support packaging
> and this seems like an OK fit for this too.
> Only drawback is that you need to configure your kernel
> before you can pack the source tarball.
> 
> Moving the packaging support to scripts/package/
> avoiding any changes to the top-level Makefile.
> 
> Appended is my attemt to add it to said file.
> But my git did not support the '-o' option so it is untested.
> 
> To apply it you need your MANIFEST file (obviously).
> 
> Help will say:
> $ make help | grep perf
>   perf-pkg        - Build perf-2.6.34.tar.gz source tarball
> 
> 
> You may consider to restructure cmd_perf a little so
> it exits on error. I just did the quick version here.

I'll try to do that later today, thanks a lot!
 
> 	Sam
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