[aur-general] Linux packaging
Hi, I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel. I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all . The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch). Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files? Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone. Cheers,
Some options: yaourt -G linux https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l... git clone packages.git with --depth 1 (shallow clone) On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Javier Domingo Cansino <javierdo1@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
Cheers,
also https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l... or zcat /proc/config.gz on a running system On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
Some options:
yaourt -G linux
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l...
git clone packages.git with --depth 1 (shallow clone)
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Javier Domingo Cansino < javierdo1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
Cheers,
Yeah, but the problem is about achieving a config for version X, not the latest. RTAI ships on each release patches for specific versions... On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
also
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l...
or zcat /proc/config.gz on a running system
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
Some options:
yaourt -G linux
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l...
git clone packages.git with --depth 1 (shallow clone)
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Javier Domingo Cansino < javierdo1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years
ago. I
want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
Cheers,
-- Javier Domingo Cansino
The idea is to then create a VCS package that tracks the project, so work on having a proper config for an specific version can be reused. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Javier Domingo Cansino <javierdo1@gmail.com
wrote:
Yeah, but the problem is about achieving a config for version X, not the latest.
RTAI ships on each release patches for specific versions...
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
also
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l...
or zcat /proc/config.gz on a running system
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
Some options:
yaourt -G linux
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/l...
git clone packages.git with --depth 1 (shallow clone)
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Javier Domingo Cansino < javierdo1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years
ago. I
want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
Cheers,
-- Javier Domingo Cansino
-- Javier Domingo Cansino
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:25:51PM +0100, Javier Domingo Cansino wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
You can use asp[0] to do a piecemeal checkout. 'asp checkout linux' will give you a tidy git repo with full history of the package. dR [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/asp-git/
I don't like adding such a dependency, but you indirectly guided me to the solution. The packages.git repo has a branch for each package where only that package's history is kept. That's all I needed to know, thank you very much! I will now create a script to extract the commit I need, Thanks! On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:25:51PM +0100, Javier Domingo Cansino wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
You can use asp[0] to do a piecemeal checkout. 'asp checkout linux' will give you a tidy git repo with full history of the package.
dR
-- Javier Domingo Cansino
Hi, I have advanced with the packaging, but I am now facing a new challenge. I have seen that linux PKGBUILD is really long, and not precisely simple. And thinking about a simpler solution, I have thought about make deb-pkg/rpm-pkg and dumping the contents to $pkgbuild. For the moment, I am doing a really simple deploy[1], but I would love to have a lighter/cleaner way to install the kernel part. I am open to new ideas! For the moment, the whole package (xz) weights 175MB... [1] simple kernel install: https://github.com/txomon/rtai-package/blob/6487c1db14672810fa0a9e8243918dd4... On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:23 PM Javier Domingo Cansino <javierdo1@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't like adding such a dependency, but you indirectly guided me to the solution. The packages.git repo has a branch for each package where only that package's history is kept. That's all I needed to know, thank you very much!
I will now create a script to extract the commit I need,
Thanks!
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:25:51PM +0100, Javier Domingo Cansino wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel.
I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all .
The svn version is also quite hacky , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch).
Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version without having to package the config files?
Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
You can use asp[0] to do a piecemeal checkout. 'asp checkout linux' will give you a tidy git repo with full history of the package.
dR
-- Javier Domingo Cansino
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Dave Reisner
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Ido Rosen
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Javier Domingo Cansino