Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] perf tools: Make target to generate selfcontained source tarball

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon May 31 2010 - 14:06:57 EST


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:42:07PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sat, May 29, 2010 at 09:29:48AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg escreveu:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:53:57PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Hi Michal, Sam,
> > >
> > > Are you OK with with this change?
> >
> > No - I do not like it :-)
> >
> > But I like the concept.
> >
> > We have some minimal infrastructure to support packaging
> > and this seems like an OK fit for this too.
> > Only drawback is that you need to configure your kernel
> > before you can pack the source tarball.
> >
> > Moving the packaging support to scripts/package/
> > avoiding any changes to the top-level Makefile.
>
> What about this one?
>
> It touches one line in the top level Makefile, but that can be
> considered not perf specific, i.e. if building source tarballs
> (-src-pkg suffixed targets) is considered useful, and I think it is,
> then that can be used for building source tarballs with some processing,
> i.e. adding the HEAD to the tarball being generated, like I'm doing
> for perf.

Both the top-level Makefile change and the package stuff can be considered:

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sam
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