From ea1d180a628f146aae4e321fe545fcddb2d577c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@mssola.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:35:49 +0100
Subject: kbuild: add the '-l/--local' flag
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This allows you to define that you are planning to deploy things in your
current development box. This means that ARCH has to match whatever is
currently on your system, and CROSS_COMPILE is needed. Moreover, we
don't need an installation bundle, but we just need the
install.sh/uninstall.sh scripts.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@mssola.com>
---
 bin/kbuild | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/kbuild b/bin/kbuild
index d60ed8f..6bd8dd5 100755
--- a/bin/kbuild
+++ b/bin/kbuild
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
 #      `.config` file again and again.
 #   2. `--skip-install`: don't generate the install/uninstall files.
 #   3. `-p/--profile`: the kind of machine you are building the kernel for.
-#   4. `-h/--help`: show the help message.
+#   4. `-l/--local`: this is a local build, just generate install/uninstall scripts.
+#   5. `-h/--help`: show the help message.
 #
 # After that just send the resulting tarball to the machine where you want to
 # install this kernel. In there you just need to untar the given bundle and then
@@ -68,6 +69,10 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
             PROFILE="$2"
             shift 2
             ;;
+        -l | --local)
+            IS_LOCAL=1
+            shift
+            ;;
         -h | --help)
             SHOW_HELP=1
             shift
@@ -93,6 +98,7 @@ following options:
 
   -h, --help            Show this message.
   -p, --profile         The profile to be picked up (values: debian, suse).
+  -l, --local           This is a local build, just generatel install/uninstall files.
   --skip-install        Don't generate the install/uninstall files.
   --skip-config         Skip the configuration step.
 HERE
@@ -116,7 +122,15 @@ fi
 ##
 # Initial checks.
 
-# Most of the times, we are safer if we just set the `ARCH` env. variable.
+# If this is a local build, then force `ARCH` To match the current system's
+# architecture and unset any `CROSS_COMPILE` business.
+if [ ! -z "$IS_LOCAL" ]; then
+    ARCH="$(uname -m)"
+    unset CROSS_COMPILE
+fi
+
+# Most of the times, we are safer if we just set the `ARCH` environment
+# variable.
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
     echo "kbuild (error): \$ARCH has to be defined."
     exit 1
@@ -167,7 +181,7 @@ echo "kbuild (info): building the Linux kernel..."
 make -j "$(nproc)"
 
 ##
-# Installing into a local bundle.
+# Installing.
 
 if [ -n "$NO_INSTALL" ]; then
     echo "kbuild (info): done!"
@@ -176,6 +190,25 @@ fi
 
 name=$(cat include/config/kernel.release)
 
+if [ ! -z "$IS_LOCAL" ]; then
+    # Just generate install/uninstall scripts and go.
+
+    cp "$HOME/.config/kbuild/$PROFILE/install.sh" install.sh
+    sed -i "s/\$name/$name/g" install.sh
+    chmod +x install.sh
+
+    cp "$HOME/.config/kbuild/$PROFILE/uninstall.sh" uninstall.sh
+    sed -i "s/\$name/$name/g" uninstall.sh
+    chmod +x uninstall.sh
+
+    echo "kbuild (info): generated 'install.sh' and 'uninstall.sh'."
+
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+##
+# Into a bundle.
+
 if [ -z "$INSTALL_PATH" ]; then
     INSTALL_PATH="buildroot-$name"
 fi
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