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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAQjXTZhObuZ6R159kaOcsjTnTHftqnZe6GMfk0ibCkOkw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:17:16 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Bastian Germann <bage@...utronix.de>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: deb-pkg: add KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS to specify
 compression type

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 5:34 AM Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu> wrote:
>
> On Mon 17 Apr 2023 23:25:48 GMT, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Add KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS to specify the compression for the orig and
> > debian tarballs. (The existing KDEB_COMPRESS is used to specify the
> > compression for binary packages.)
>
> Sounds to me, that it would make sense to sum-up some documentation for
> kbuild Debian package configuration.
>
> > Supported algorithms are gzip, bzip2, lzma, and xz, all of which are
> > supported by dpkg-source.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >
> >  scripts/Makefile.package | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.package b/scripts/Makefile.package
> > index d8a36304b26e..ce3d8b4e9cb0 100644
> > --- a/scripts/Makefile.package
> > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.package
> > @@ -41,19 +41,25 @@ check-git:
> >               false; \
> >       fi
> >
> > -git-config-tar.gz  = -c tar.tar.gz.command="$(KGZIP)"
> > -git-config-tar.bz2 = -c tar.tar.bz2.command="$(KBZIP2)"
> > -git-config-tar.xz  = -c tar.tar.xz.command="$(XZ)"
> > -git-config-tar.zst = -c tar.tar.zst.command="$(ZSTD)"
> > +git-config-tar.gz   = -c tar.tar.gz.command="$(KGZIP)"
> > +git-config-tar.bz2  = -c tar.tar.bz2.command="$(KBZIP2)"
> > +git-config-tar.lzma = -c tar.tar.lzma.command="$(LZMA)"
> > +git-config-tar.xz   = -c tar.tar.xz.command="$(XZ)"
> > +git-config-tar.zst  = -c tar.tar.zst.command="$(ZSTD)"
> >
> >  quiet_cmd_archive = ARCHIVE $@
> >        cmd_archive = git -C $(srctree) $(git-config-tar$(suffix $@)) archive \
> >                      --output=$$(realpath $@) --prefix=$(basename $@)/ $(archive-args)
> >
> > +suffix-gzip  := .gz
> > +suffix-bzip2 := .bz2
> > +suffix-lzma  := .lzma
> > +suffix-xz    := .xz
> > +
> >  # Linux source tarball
> >  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > -linux-tarballs := $(addprefix linux, .tar.gz)
> > +linux-tarballs := $(addprefix linux, .tar.gz .tar.bz2 .tar.lzma .tar.xz)
> >
> >  targets += $(linux-tarballs)
> >  $(linux-tarballs): archive-args = $$(cat $<)
> > @@ -88,6 +94,15 @@ binrpm-pkg:
> >  # deb-pkg srcdeb-pkg bindeb-pkg
> >  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > +KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS ?= gzip
>
> According to dpkg-source(1), xz is the default compression for deb
> source format >= 2.  Shouldn't we use xz here by default as well?


Yes.
xz is the default because we switched to format 3.0 (quilt).

But, we used gzip for a long time, so I did not change it
in this commit.


I do not have a strong opinion.

Ben (debian kernel maintainer) is in the CC list,
perhaps he has some preference.






--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

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