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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] package: add tar development package for 3rd party
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To:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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 <20221021101452.1367745-2-federico.vaga@cern.ch>
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Hi--

On 10/21/22 03:14, Federico Vaga wrote:
> Most, if not all, Linux distributions provides a Linux development
> package which purpose is to support the building of out-of-tree modules
> without providing the entire source tree.
> 
> What ends up in this development directory is a mixture of source
> files (mainly headers) and generated ones (headers, and tools produced
> by `make modules_prepare`).
> 
> This patch is an attempt to generate a tarball archive containing all
> required files to build external modules. It could be than reused by
> packagers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
> ---
>  Makefile                       |   2 +-
>  scripts/Makefile.package       |  13 +++
>  scripts/package/buildtar-devel | 207 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 scripts/package/buildtar-devel

Is there a patch 2/2?  I don't see it anywhere.


thanks.
-- 
~Randy