Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enable building of the devel RPM package from Kbuild

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 12:51 AM Pratham Patel
<prathampatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM IST, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:08:57PM +0000, Pratham Patel wrote:
> > > On Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM IST, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 04:37:32AM +0000, Pratham Patel wrote:
> > > > > This addresses a minor nit where I want a `-devel` RPM package to be
> > > > > built when I build a binary RPM package with either `binrpm-pkg`
> > > > > or `rpm-pkg` target(s).
> > > > >
> > > > > Pratham Patel (2):
> > > > >   kbuild: allow toggling the `with_devel` RPM macro
> > > > >   docs: kbuild: document KBUILD_RPM_WITH_DEVEL
> > > > >
> > > > >  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 6 ++++++
> > > > >  scripts/Makefile.package        | 5 ++++-
> > > > >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.42.0
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm, when I execute
> > > >
> > > >   $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=x86_64 O=build mrproper defconfig binrpm-pkg
> > > >
> > > > I end up with
> > > >
> > > >   $ ls -1 build/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
> > > >   kernel-6.9.0_rc4_00031_g96fca68c4fbf-1.x86_64.rpm
> > > >   kernel-devel-6.9.0_rc4_00031_g96fca68c4fbf-1.x86_64.rpm
> > > >   kernel-headers-6.9.0_rc4_00031_g96fca68c4fbf-1.x86_64.rpm
> > > >
> > > > so it seems like this is already happening?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Nathan
> > >
> > > Ah sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say the following:
> > > "This addresses a minor nit where I **don't** want a `-devel` RPM
> > > package to be built when I build a binary RPM package with either
> > > `binrpm-pkg` or `rpm-pkg` target(s)."
> > >
> > > That is because on ARM systems where I just need to quickly test the
> > > upstream defconfig, I don't really need the `-devel` package.
> > >
> > > Also, I see that in a hurry, I did the opposite of what I wanted in the
> > > patches. This went unnoticed since I had KBUILD_RPM_WITH_DEVEL=0 for me
> > > during testing. Sorry about that!
> > >
> > > I'll send a v2 fixing this stupid mistake.
> >
> > Ah, understood! I am not sure you actually need a v2 though because I
> > think you can already accomplish what you are looking for by adding
> >
> >   RPMOPTS='--without devel'
> >
> > to your make command, at least that works for me. Commit 2a291fc315b6
> > ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce %{with_devel} switch to select devel
> > package") introduced this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
>
> Oh, didn't know that, thank you. :)
>
>  -- Pratham Patel
>


As explained in the commit description of
a55d4aee76ca72e198a657cb471d2a3b37983072





-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada