From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nicky Chorley <ndchorley@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:57:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRKv6cpxaUfa6Abv@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42bfb9dc-3bbf-eba6-d1e9-ae56bc49f94@rigel.lan>
On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 07:44:41AM +0100, Nicky Chorley wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > But we do not use pip to do kernel builds, so what is this going to help
> > with?
>
> It's just about making people's lives easier for running the spdxcheck.py
> script - not everyone will have the third-party libraries installed, so
> listing them means they can be installed easily. For example:
I think the most useful thing here would be to find a way to make
spdxcheck just work without the non-standard python module. As far
as I can tell it uses the module only to do the recursive travesal
of the current tree anyway, which seems rather pointless to start with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-10 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <efcdf26-fd74-3d7d-25b1-d77ed3c493@rigel.lan>
2021-07-27 6:42 ` Fwd: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies Nicky Chorley
2021-07-27 6:47 ` Greg KH
2021-07-31 11:57 ` Nicky Chorley
2021-08-05 12:21 ` Greg KH
2021-08-06 6:44 ` Nicky Chorley
2021-08-10 11:27 ` Zavras, Alexios
2021-08-10 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-08-10 21:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
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