Re: [PATCH v3] deb-pkg: add source package
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:08:44AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I've gone through this with Riku and found a couple of problems:
>
> - The 'clean' rule in the generated debian/rules calls 'make clean',
> but scripts/package/Makefile includes debian/ in clean-dirs.
> Currently that directory does not get removed for some reason, but I
> think that's a bug and the clean rule in debian/rules should guard
> against removal.
Good catch. make clean is indeed supposed to delete the debian/
directory.
> - Building of the 'orig' tarball uses git, i.e. it depends on the
> kernel source being in a git repository and not simply unpacked from
> a tarball (or from other VCS). The rpmpkg target doesn't have this
> same restriction.
Right. make rpm uses the KBUILD_ALLDIRS to generate the tarball. It's
not perfect, but it behaves consistently.
Michal
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