linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] builddeb: allow building without headers/firmware packages

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:12:11 +1100
From:   Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
To:     mmarek@...e.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] builddeb: allow building without headers/firmware
 packages

On 26/08/16 18:17, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Currently, the deb-pkg and bindeb-pkg targets create multiple packages for
> the kernel binaries, headers, userspace headers and firmware.
>
> For developers who generate Debian packages as part of their development
> workflows, it's often not necessary to generate all these packages.
>
> Allow the creation of the linux-headers, linux-libc-dev and linux-firmware
> packages to be disabled if the environment variables KDEB_NO_HEADERS,
> KDEB_NO_LIBC_HEADERS or KDEB_NO_FIRMWARE are non-empty.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>

Ping :)

> On top of d3e2773c4ede5c62d2a92dae20e3a09b1ca55b6e in kbuild#rc-fixes

This of course is now in mainline.

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited