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Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:48:57 +0200
From:   Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] package: add tar development package for 3rd party
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:11:18PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>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.

My mistake.

Yes there is a second one but I did not want to send it becuase it is about
generalizing buildtar to build 3 type of tarballs: the linux binaries to be
placed in /boot, the header files for user-space, and the development headers
and tools for out-of-tree modules (this patch).

The second one makes sense, only if this one makes sense. That's why I wrote few
lines in the RFC cover letter. I should have used the format-patch option to not
enumerate patches :)

>thanks.
>-- 
>~Randy

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