On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Paul Bolle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 20:28 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: >> I agree with Josh, what is it that you're actually trying to achieve here? > > What I want to achieve is to make the build a bit more quiet. And I prefer it > to not do things for no good reason. > > But it turns out I can get what I want if we remove the call of "make > oldnoconfig" during %prep. There really is no need to do that for all config > files in configs/, as only one of those files will be used for the build. And > the file that actually will be used during %build will go through "make > oldnoconfig". So why bother doing that earlier during %prep?
The reason it's done during prep for all config files is so that maintainers can do a basic "fedpkg prep" to make sure they haven't broken anything before pushing it. I do this numerous times a day when working on kernel stuff. Peter _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
