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Message-ID: <CAK7LNARU=M282fAOOgzPOBPtDNFPjH8To9eK2vYstWxkEDEEPA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 23:16:31 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: deb-pkg: do not include empty hook directories

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 11:01 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> The linux-image package currently includes empty hook directories
> (/etc/kernel/{pre,post}{inst,rm}.d/ by default).
>
> These directories were perhaps intended as a fail-safe in case no
> hook scripts exist there.
>
> However, they are unnecessary because the run-parts command is already
> guarded by the following check:
>
>     test -d ${debhookdir}/${script}.d && run-parts ...
>
> The only difference is that the run-parts command either runs for empty
> directories (resulting in a no-op) or is skipped entirely.
>
> The maintainer scripts will succeed without these dummy directories.


The linux-image packages from the Debian kernel do not contain
the /etc/kernel/*.d/ directories either.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong, Ben)



> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> ---
>
>  scripts/package/builddeb | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> index fb686fd3266f..e823742e17c4 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> @@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ install_linux_image () {
>         # so do we; recent versions of dracut and initramfs-tools will obey this.
>         debhookdir=${KDEB_HOOKDIR:-/etc/kernel}
>         for script in postinst postrm preinst prerm; do
> -               mkdir -p "${pdir}${debhookdir}/${script}.d"
> -
>                 mkdir -p "${pdir}/DEBIAN"
>                 cat <<-EOF > "${pdir}/DEBIAN/${script}"
>                 #!/bin/sh
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>


--
Best Regards

Masahiro Yamada

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