On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:46:23AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Without these patches, to build an upgraded kernel on a Debian machine,
> one has to use commands I keep on forgetting:
>
> make oldconfig
> make
> fakeroot -u make deb-pkg
>
> With these patches applied, as long as fakeroot is installed, a single
> command will do:
>
> make oldconfig deb-pkg
>
> If fakeroot is not installed, there should be no change in behavior.
> I have been using this to build the last few kernels, finding it very
> convenient.
>
> I look forward to your thoughts, even if they are just "I have no time
> to look at this now". I would like to get an idea of whether people
> think these patches are a good idea, so I can fix them if they're
> broken and chase them out of my local tree.
I have not yet started to look at -next material where
this obviously belongs.
I skimmed the path last time you sent it (and have it queued
in my inbox) and my first reaction was:
Is ROOTCMD an established way to specify this?
I asked google and not too many hits.
So I think we should come up with something more in the
line of the other stuff we have.
That could be the longer:
KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD
Which with the KBUILD_ prefix could be a globel environment
variable for some.
The rationale for the _PKG is that this is restricted to
the *pkg targets (at least for now).
Sam
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