[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Fwd: Patches to build udeb's and module packages directly from source

[Turbo Fredriksson]

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> From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Patches to build udeb's and module packages directly from source
> Date: May 30, 2013 10:42:01 PM GMT+02:00
> To: Aron Xu <happyaron.xu at gmail.com>
> 
> On May 30, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Aron Xu wrote:
> 
>> But I'm not quite sure if module-assistant is less
>> convenient than the debian/rules in a package.
> 
> I removed the dependency on m-a a while ago. And can it be any more
> convenient than building the binary AND module package in one go:
> 
> 	debuild -uc -us -sa -b && debian/rules override_dh_binary-modules
> 
> Using m-a, I first need to create a source package of the modules, install
> that (which unpack in /usr/src/modules/{spl,zfs} I think it is), then issue
> the correct m-a command line to build these. And m-a is a mess, powerful
> as hell, but a mess :), I can never remember how to invoke m-a...
> --
> There are no dumb questions,
> unless a customer is asking them.
> - Unknown
> 

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