From 14d308052634be4d218a4c517bb32ac54b89213d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lxoliva Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:39:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New git-svn-id: http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts@4653 559672b5-ba27-0410-b829-e8f1faed8b1b --- README | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0469157d5ff5 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +The scripts in this directory clean up and verify linux tarballs and +patches for non-Free blobs. They're used to create the Linux-libre +releases (see http://fsfla.org/se-libre/linux-libre/), but you can use +them to clean up and verify your own trees as well. + +deblob-check looks for blobs in tarballs, source files and patches, +and performs a number of other tasks, such as cleaning up individual +source files from non-Free blobs, while retaining known Free and +apparent blobs. + +deblob- is to be run in an expanded Linux- tree, to +clean it up from non-Free blobs. As explained in the comments in the +script, if deblob-check is alongside it, it will be used to remove +only the blobs, otherwise entire files will be removed. + +deblob-main is used to clean up a Linux tarball and create a +Linux-libre tarball. The comments in the script detail the arguments +it expects. If you use it to deblob patched Linux trees, be sure to +run deblob-check on the result, to make sure blobs haven't been added +in the patches that it didn't know to clean up. + +Be Free! + +-- +Alex Oliva, FSFLA -- 2.31.1