Re: [PATCH 1/2] feat: package linux-perf-<version> in kernel recipe

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 18.02.21 09:01, [ext] Moessbauer, Felix wrote:
> Hi Baurzhan,
> 
> Thanks for the review.
> I'll change that in the next version.
> 
> In the meantime, I discovered that there are still a couple of things missing for Debian bullseye.
> They added version bindings between linux-perf and linux-perf-<version>, so we have to build the linux-perf package as well.
> I'll do that in v2 as well.
> 
> Apart from that: IMO doing the debianization of the kernel tools (also kselftest) in the kernel recipe is way better than having it in a dedicated recipe.
> Using this approach, it is also possible to use an upstream kernel, but our perf package.
> Technically, we then have to fetch and build the whole kernel manually, but only the perf packages are installed.
> That's a bit of extra work (which could be avoided if we check inside the kernel recipe which target is attracted. Don't know if that's possible).

I don't thing you can explore that during the build. But you could add
some control variables to the kernel recipe that will decide which
packages are going to be built out of it.

Jan

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