Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Only build linux-image package for UML

From: Mattia Dongili
Date: Thu Feb 16 2012 - 16:36:09 EST


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:49:50AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 17:38 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > For user-mode Linux the other packages are not required. So
> > only build the package with the linux-image in it.
> >
> > Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: maximilian attems <max@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: debian-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> But I've never touched UML either so we should get confirmation that
> this really is the right thing to do.

there is a wishlist bug opened ages ago (and pinged not so long ago)
requesting headers to be packaged in debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186930
Just to say that there is some interest in having headers packaged
somehow.

--
mattia
:wq!

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