Public bug reported:
[ Impact ]
When linux-main-modules has been introduced, it added a forced
dependency on zfs; the module is not built by test servers and leave
developers in a bad state needing to build the module manually and
installing it. This patch is a proposal to create a toggle to remove the
dependency for test servers.
[ Fix ]
The fix is to add a do_linux_main_modules_depends variable in
0-common-vars.mk that can be externally triggered.
This will need a patch to the test servers to set the variable to false
when building the kernel.
[ Testing ]
Testing will check that not passing the variable to the build will
produce a kernel with the dependency enabled, while running it in a way
like the following one
do_linux_main_modules_depends=false dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
will produce a kernel without the linux-main-modules dependencies.
[ What could go wrong ]
Canonical would produce one kernel with a dependency to lmm (i.e. zfs)
for production and one with no dependencies. This should be a small
impact as the module can be separately built and installed by a
developer in case of need.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Alessio Faina (alessiofaina)
Status: In Progress
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Resolute)
Importance: High
Assignee: Alessio Faina (alessiofaina)
Status: In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Alessio Faina (alessiofaina)
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Resolute)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Resolute)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Resolute)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Resolute)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Alessio Faina (alessiofaina)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Summary changed:
- Add a linux-main-modules dependency toggle
+ Add a linux-main-modules dependency toggle to kernel build process
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Add a linux-main-modules dependency toggle to kernel build process
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