From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8E4C4338F for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DD560C40 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229516AbhHJQ6R (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:58:17 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42654 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229474AbhHJQ6R (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:58:17 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F4E4C0613C1 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:57:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=5lFbX9win0MFkQJdrlkyjn0b0RfchTDxmvzmgtHCsBw=; b=HdwxwrYbXTb9yCwEXNij5lj+6e DKpr8a3JNoxinuoaBUzn1i7fp8x93msEQ737/cTAodODqhzAlJ9AAX3fi54VHK/fLXOAS1NBH3ChY BXUHw/JfnIiENl4plAm5IF+ZiiV3Ru9UAEfWN9AGRCXx7q5FqPoz/fguEYHMCo3C46gVH02xkzkU/ QeAj5h5qjayIOUK0ljmpH8Lpt+lGxXhqoaFYRjEIzZBahLeszsGMjTW/CSfBKRLEGSkyS5MYqWsWi KfEakYOUxqHl3Wh86CTP+/RKMkKTqI+iLG3F8GYYNJg/AGnefGgEWAkf94l3m5nFjEGgwxtkLzesD 50fMsKHQ==; Received: from hch by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1mDV3x-00CN3S-MA; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:57:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:57:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nicky Chorley Cc: Greg KH , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies Message-ID: References: <42bfb9dc-3bbf-eba6-d1e9-ae56bc49f94@rigel.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42bfb9dc-3bbf-eba6-d1e9-ae56bc49f94@rigel.lan> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 07:44:41AM +0100, Nicky Chorley wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Greg KH wrote: > > > But we do not use pip to do kernel builds, so what is this going to help > > with? > > It's just about making people's lives easier for running the spdxcheck.py > script - not everyone will have the third-party libraries installed, so > listing them means they can be installed easily. For example: I think the most useful thing here would be to find a way to make spdxcheck just work without the non-standard python module. As far as I can tell it uses the module only to do the recursive travesal of the current tree anyway, which seems rather pointless to start with.