[arch-general] Why taking so long?

[Ray Rashif]

On 31/01/2010, Andrea Fagiani <andfagiani at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/30/2010 01:37 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>> Am Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:11:26 +0100
>> schrieb Andrea Crotti<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>> Sometimes (only twice actually) I had to recompile the kernel with ice
>>> support from aur.
>>> Now compiling the kernel is not a short job, but it looks like it
>>> really compiles EVERYTHING!
>>>
>>> Maybe putting my .config somewhere it will not do it, how do you
>>> manage it?
>>>
>> I guess this is the easiest way to compile your own kernel:
>>
>> 1. cp -R /var/abs/core/kernel26 /var/abs/local/kernel26-<yourkernelname>
>>
>> 2. Edit these variables in the PKGBUILD:
>> pkgbase (to your package name)
>> pkgname (copy the original one and replace kernel26* with
>> kernel26-<yourkernelname>*)
>>
>> 3. Add the patches you like to the PKGBUILD.
>>
>> 4. Remove the comments of these lines:
>> #make menuconfig # CLI menu for configuration (or the other options)
>> #msg "Stopping build"
>> #return 1
>>
>> 5. Run makepkg -g and replace the md5sums in the PKGBUILD.
>>
>> 6. Run makepkg and configure your kernel. (You don't need to change
>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, this is done by the PKGBUILD automatically.)
>>
>> 7.
>> cd /var/abs/local/kernel26-<yourkernelname>/src/linux-<kernelversion>
>> diff -u .config.old .config
>> cd ../..
>> Make the changes to the files config and config.x86_64 manually.
>>
>> or
>>
>> cd /var/abs/local/kernel26-<yourkernelname>
>> cp src/linux-<kernelversion>/.config ./config
>> or
>> cp src/linux-<kernelversion>/.config ./config.x86_64
>> (depending on your CPU)
>>
>> 8. Run makepkg -g and replace the md5sums in the PKGBUILD.
>>
>> 9. Edit the PKGBUILD and comment the lines from 4.
>>
>> 10. Run makepkg and install the built package.
>>
>> 11. Finished!
>>
>> If you want to publish your kernel package in AUR then you
>> unfortunately need to revert the PKGBUILD from a split to a single
>> package.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Heiko
>>
>>
> Or, you could just edit the kernel26-ice PKGBUILD and enable the
> /menuconfig/ variable so that it triggers menuconfig in the build()
> section, there you can either modify the configuration on the run or
> load an alternate config file; just be sure to save the edited config to
> /.conf/ig .
>
> Andrea
>

In the latest kernel, there is 'make localmodconfig' for precisely this problem.


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