Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

[Jarod Wilson]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file
>  > at the beginning:
>  > 
>  > %define allowup 1
>  > %define allowsmp 1
>  > %define allowpae 1
>  > %define allowxen 1
>  > %define allowdoc 1
>  > %define allowdump 1
>  > %define allowheaders 1
>  > %define allowdebug 1
>  > 
>  > Then, after all the automatic enable/disable of various options is done,
>  > turn off everything that's not allowed.
>  > 
>  > This would make it much easier to change what gets built.
> 
> The amount of %define's we've grown recently does seem to be
> getting out of hand. I'm not sure it's a good/bad thing, but it
> does make the spec a little harder to read.
> 
> Not sure about your proposal tbh.  I'll think about it more
> when I'm back from vacation :)

I like it, at least in theory. Invariably, I'll do a test build, and to
speed the process, I twiddle bits at the top of the spec to disable
certain builds. In the i686 case, I almost always forget to hunt down
lower to turn off pae.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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