On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 07:01 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: > Hi kernel team, > cpupowerutils (the evolution of cpufrequtils) has been included as part > of the tools/ directory in the upstream linux kernel source. > > do you have any plans of packaging cpupowerutils as part of linux-tools > or can I go ahead and package it separately? > > Or even, is it worth spawning a new package off of the linux kernel > source (as is done today for linux-utils) and get cpupowerutils built > each time a new kernel is released? Bastian Blank has plans to move building of userland tools such as perf into the linux-kbuild-2.6 source package (renamed to linux-tools). You can find this work in progress under <svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-tools>. I think cpupowerutils should be built as part of linux-tools. However, I assume that it will not be as closely tied to new kernel versions as perf, so it does need to be part of a version-specific package. Is that right? > I guess the main downside of packaging it as part of linux-utils (or the > linux kernel builds) is the fact that package revisions for > cpupowerutils would spawn a new kernel build. [...] We do that quite often anyway... but no, it won't if it's part of linux-tools. Ben.
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