From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu ([18.9.28.11]:39971 "EHLO outgoing.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729432AbfGOTNU (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:13:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:12:45 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] debian: add generic rule file Message-ID: <20190715191245.GD3068@mit.edu> References: <1562664759-16009-1-git-send-email-info@metux.net> <1562664759-16009-4-git-send-email-info@metux.net> <5af9db32-2cf5-10ba-261c-e08852d0814f@metux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5af9db32-2cf5-10ba-261c-e08852d0814f@metux.net> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Cc: Masahiro Yamada , "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michal Marek , Robo Bot , Joe Perches , Linux Kbuild mailing list , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, clang-built-linux On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 08:56:25PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 15.07.19 14:28, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > >> The rule file contains a rule for creating debian/control and > >> other metadata - this is done similar to the 'deb-pkg' make rule, > >> scripts/packaging/mkdebian. > > > > I saw a similar patch submission before, and negative feedback about it. > > Do you recall what negative feedback exactly ? It's possible I'm not remembering some of the feedback, but the only thing I recall was the comment I made that I'd really like this use case: make O=/build/linux-build bindeb-pkg to not break. And as far as I can tell from the proposed patch series (I haven't had a chance to experimentally verify it yet), I don't think it should break anything --- I'm assuming that we will still have a way of creating the debian/rules file in /build/linux-build/debian/rules when doing a O= build, and that the intdeb-pkg rule remains the same. At least, it appears to be the case from my doing a quick look at the patches. > > Debian maintains its own debian/rules, and it is fine. > > Not for me, I don't use it - given up trying to make anything useful > out of it. It's extremly complex, practically undebuggable and doesn't > even work w/o lots of external preparations. Yeah, the official Debian debian/rules is optimized for doing a distribution release, and in addition to the issues Enrico has raised, last time I tried it, it was S-L-O-W since it was building a fully generic kernel. It's not at all useable for general developer use. It sounds like what Enrico is trying to do is to enable running "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b" from the the top-level kernel package as being easier than running "make bindeb-pkg". I suspect this might be because his goal is to integrate individual kernel builds from using Debian's hermetic build / chroot systems (e.g., sbuild, pbuilder)? - Ted