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Commit 05e96e96 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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kbuild: use git-archive for source package creation

Commit 5c3d1d0a ("kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git")
added a new tool, scripts/list-gitignored. My intention was to create
source packages without cleaning the source tree, without relying on git.

Linus strongly objected to it, and suggested using 'git archive' instead.
[1] [2] [3]

This commit goes in that direction - Remove scripts/list-gitignored.c
and rewrites Makefiles and scripts to use 'git archive' for building
Debian and RPM source packages. It also makes 'make perf-tar*-src-pkg'
use 'git archive' again.

Going forward, building source packages is only possible in a git-managed
tree. Building binary packages does not require git.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi49sMaC7vY1yMagk7eqLK=1jHeHQ=yZ_k45P=xBccnmA@mail.gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh5AixGsLeT0qH2oZHKq0FLUTbyTw4qY921L=PwYgoGVw@mail.gmail.com/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgM-W6Fu==EoAVCabxyX8eYBz9kNC88-tm9ExRQwA79UQ@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: 5c3d1d0a ("kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git")
Fixes: e0ca1674

 ("kbuild: make perf-tar*-src-pkg work without relying on git")
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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