Since 5.3 (59b2bd05f5f4dc) the 'make headers_install' call depends on rsync to deploy the files system wide. Signed-off-by: Sven Roederer <devel-sven@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index ee741763a3fc..114edabb21c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -55,9 +55,11 @@ iptables 1.4.2 iptables -V openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 openssl version bc 1.06.95 bc --version Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.3 sphinx-build --version +rsync\ [#f2]_ 3.0 rsync --version ====================== =============== ======================================== .. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation +.. [#f2] rsync is needed only during final install of kernel-headers Kernel compilation ****************** @@ -161,6 +163,12 @@ is not build with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` and you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops. +rsync +----- + +rsync is used to install the kernel-headers system wide with administrative +permissions. This was added in v5.3. + Mkinitrd -------- -- 2.17.1
