[PATCH] kernel.spec: adding --with firmware & --without vdso_install build options

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 09:24:10 Steve Dickson wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Steve Dickson wrote:
> >> Now that devel kernels rpms require the kernel-firmware rpm, it makes
> >> sense to me that one should be able to build both of them at the same
> >> time. So this patch adds the "--with firmware" build option
> >> which will allow kernel-firmware rpms to built with kernel rpms.
> >>
> >> This patch also adds the "--without vdso_install" build option
> >> which stop the VDSO binaries from being installed. This cuts
> >> down the overall build time especially when you build over NFS
> >> like I do..
> >> Signed-Off-By: Steve Dickson <steved at redhat.com>
> >
> > With one small change we can still support --without firmware. That way
> > the default behavior can be overridden in either case. See below...
>
> Sure.. that works... Is there an ETA for these two changes?

I don't quite follow how the firmware change is supposed to work... The 
firmware is currently supposed to be a noarch package, and it gets built in 
the same pass as the kernel-docs sub-package, so it *shouldn't* be built in 
the same pass as the kernel. Is this flag to simply override that and build 
the firmware as an arch-specific package for simplified one-off builds?


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Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com