Re: [PATCH] kbuild: deb-pkg: Allow packages to be excluded from bindeb-pkg

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:34:23 +0000,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 06:36:47PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > The bindeb-pkg target generates a number of individual packages:
> > the kernel package itself, the debug package, the kernel and libc
> > header packages.
> > 
> > It is at times useful to not generate all the packages, such as
> > the debug package, even if the kernel configuration has CONFIG_DEBUG.
> > 
> > For this purpose, let the user provide a DEB_EXCLUDE_PKG environment
> > variable that can contain exclusion patterns for some of the build
> > artefacts. This saves precious cycles when repeatedly building packages
> > for testing purposes, where not all packages are strictly necessary.
> > 
> > The default behaviour, with no variable defined, is of course unchanged.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> > ---
> 
> thanks for your suggestion.  Could you please check whether the usual
> Debian build profiles are sufficient for your needs, e.g.:
> 
>     DEB_BUILD_PROFILES="pkg.linux-upstream.nokernelheaders pkg.linux-upstream.nokerneldbg" make bindeb-pkg
> 
> I do like that we have the Debian build profiles [1] mechanism here, and
> would rather extend it, if neccessary, instead of implementing a
> different approach additionally.

Ah, amazing!

I had no idea this was even a thing, and 2ad7126c51908 ("kbuild:
deb-pkg: add pkg.linux-upstream.nokerneldbg build profile") is exactly
what I needed,

Many thanks for pointing this out, my patch can therefore be safely
ignored.

Cheers,

	M.

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