Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/package: snap-pkg target

[Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>]

2017-12-08 0:31 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>:
> 2017-12-07 3:14 GMT+09:00 Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati@canonical.com>:
>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Masahiro Yamada
>> <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>>> Just one question to Paolo:
>>>
>>>   If some change like firmware removal happens in the future,
>>>   patching for snapcraft is necessary?
>>>     (i.e. users are required to upgrade snapcraft from --edge ?)
>>>
>>> I guess the answer is yes, because "plugin: kernel" needs to know
>>> the kernel-build system internal.
>>
>> Well, in this case, i had to fix the 'kernel-with-firmware' option to
>> skip the 'firmware_install' step since
>> we took it by default - let's say that in the future the
>> 'modules_install' target is removed or change name,
>> then i'll have to patch snapcraft.
>>
>> Wrt updating from -edge, i told you to take it from there because snap
>> packages land there more often and more quickly
>> compared to the canonicaldeb  archive, so from a developer perspective
>> it's easier&quicker to iterate over it, but sooner
>> or later (e.g. once snapcraft 2.36.1 reaches the snap -stable
>> channel), it will be copied to the deb archive too -
>> IOW, you would get using apt-get only too.
>> --
>
>
> I will pick up this for v4.16-rc1.
> It sounds like this target is a bit fragile, but let's see.
> I hope a breakage will not happen...
>


Applied to linux-kbuild/misc.  Thanks!

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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada