Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753915AbXINJ7v (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753279AbXINJ7l (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:59:41 -0400 Received: from posthamster.phnxsoft.com ([195.227.45.4]:3176 "EHLO posthamster.phnxsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbXINJ7k (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:59:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46EA5B6D.6020702@imap.cc> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:09 +0200 From: Tilman Schmidt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , Chris Wedgwood , LKML , davej@redhat.com, Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add a 'minimal tree install' target References: <20070912232534.GA26868@puku.stupidest.org> <20070913183359.GA27146@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070913192646.GE27146@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20070913192646.GE27146@uranus.ravnborg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig08911949CDB97AD559C29DFB" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1850 Lines: 53 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig08911949CDB97AD559C29DFB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sam Ravnborg schrieb: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:37:11PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>=20 >> what about "devel-pkg" instead? that would match fedora's >> "kernel-devel" naming convention. >=20 > Does > make devel-pkg > in the kernel make you think: > "This is a minimum package to build an external module". >=20 > I guess not. =46rom an rpm-based distribution background, it does, actually. You typically have to install a "xyzzy-devel" package before you can compile something related to "xyzzy", so it is quite natural to look for a "kernel-devel" package providing whatever is necessary to build kernel modules; and "cd kernel ; make devel-pkg" reads almost literally like "make kernel-devel.rpm". --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enig08911949CDB97AD559C29DFB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6lt2Q3+did9BuFsRAp3hAJ9tDTlF0n+eUv6ZV2eE2TZAM5pU3ACfTfM7 bangTx+/Rv9uGH/YLQReeLg= =yj27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig08911949CDB97AD559C29DFB-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/