linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: Extract kernel headers for out of tree modules build

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:56:55 +0300
From:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...el.com>
To:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
Cc:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...el.com>, mmarek@...e.com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"octavian.purdila@...el.com" <octavian.purdila@...el.com>,
	bogdan.m.davidoaia@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Extract kernel headers for out of tree modules build

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:50:36AM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> scripts/package/builddeb already creates a linux-keader .deb
>> package, but we need this feature also for non-Debian distros
>> (e.g. Android or LFS).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...el.com>
>
> In general, LFS does not need this - but obviously we give you the
> freedom to change whatever you do ("your system, your rules").
>
> In particular, we assume that you will build on the machine where
> the kernel will run, and also that you may need to rebuild the kernel
> several times (for additional .config choices) depending on what
> parts of BLFS you build.  And we do not provide a package manager.
> So I submit that we are the people least likely to need this.
>
> ĸen

Hi Ken / Michal,

While I don't see a huge problem having this script inside the kernel sources, I
agree that we can push this to the distro packaging scripts.

Thanks a lot for your feedback ;).

Daniel.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/