APPLIED[P]: Re: [Unstable][PATCH v2 0/3] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Clean up linux-bpf-dev packaging
Paolo Pisati
paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Wed Dec 18 15:21:11 UTC 2024
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 12:03:28PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> The linux-bpf-dev package provides vmlinux.h which is generated from vmlinux using the
> in-tree bpftool utility. Currently, we build bpftool after the kernel so need to copy
> vmlinux around which is ugly. Fix that by building the tool before the kernel.
>
> This reordering uncovered another issue with phony targets in dependency chains. It
> results in rebuilds of the kernel which is wrong (and bad). Patch 3 fixes that.
>
> Note that the whole concept of the linux-bpf-dev package still remains broken as outlined
> in the commit message of patch 2.
Applied.
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bye,
p.
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