On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 12:32 -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 01/02/2018 08:35 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > A bit off topic: I suppose at the ultimate goal is to do rpmbuild from within
> > a proper git clone of the kernel repository. Ie, using a branch with Fedora's
> > patches, a specfile, and whatever else we need. Perhaps further gitifying the
> > current specfile helps to reach that goal. Not sure, though.
>
> If you're referring to the rpmbuild in the upstream kernel tree, I don't
> think it's particularly feasible for an official distribution. We end up
> doing a lot of extra things on top of what's necessary just to package the
> kernel and modules. I do want to experiment with making the upstream rpmbuild
> more useful though.
That might be very useful, and probably is a lot of work, but that wasn't what
I was hinting at. Sorry.
We're juggling tarballs and patches to build Fedora specific kernel rpms while
all information that we need is already in the kernel git repo clone that's
already on our machines. So what I was hinting at that I would like to do
git remote add kernel-pkg fedoraproject.org/whatever
and then (in a kernel-pkg related branch) do
rpmbuild --i-want-a-pony --foo --bar kernel.spec
and end up with Fedora specific kernel rpms.
Sounds simple, so it must be a tricky problem to solve.
Thanks,
Paul Bolle
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