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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html