Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enable building of the devel RPM package from Kbuild

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:08:57PM +0000, Pratham Patel wrote:
> On Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM IST, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 04:37:32AM +0000, Pratham Patel wrote:
> > > This addresses a minor nit where I want a `-devel` RPM package to be
> > > built when I build a binary RPM package with either `binrpm-pkg`
> > > or `rpm-pkg` target(s).
> > >
> > > Pratham Patel (2):
> > >   kbuild: allow toggling the `with_devel` RPM macro
> > >   docs: kbuild: document KBUILD_RPM_WITH_DEVEL
> > >
> > >  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 6 ++++++
> > >  scripts/Makefile.package        | 5 ++++-
> > >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.42.0
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm, when I execute
> >
> >   $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=x86_64 O=build mrproper defconfig binrpm-pkg
> >
> > I end up with
> >
> >   $ ls -1 build/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
> >   kernel-6.9.0_rc4_00031_g96fca68c4fbf-1.x86_64.rpm
> >   kernel-devel-6.9.0_rc4_00031_g96fca68c4fbf-1.x86_64.rpm
> >   kernel-headers-6.9.0_rc4_00031_g96fca68c4fbf-1.x86_64.rpm
> >
> > so it seems like this is already happening?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> 
> Ah sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say the following:
> "This addresses a minor nit where I **don't** want a `-devel` RPM
> package to be built when I build a binary RPM package with either
> `binrpm-pkg` or `rpm-pkg` target(s)."
> 
> That is because on ARM systems where I just need to quickly test the
> upstream defconfig, I don't really need the `-devel` package.
> 
> Also, I see that in a hurry, I did the opposite of what I wanted in the
> patches. This went unnoticed since I had KBUILD_RPM_WITH_DEVEL=0 for me
> during testing. Sorry about that!
> 
> I'll send a v2 fixing this stupid mistake.

Ah, understood! I am not sure you actually need a v2 though because I
think you can already accomplish what you are looking for by adding

  RPMOPTS='--without devel'

to your make command, at least that works for me. Commit 2a291fc315b6
("kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce %{with_devel} switch to select devel
package") introduced this.

Cheers,
Nathan