[arch-general] Why did kernel packaging become slow?

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun May 8 13:10:33 UTC 2016


On Sun, 8 May 2016 13:01:31 +0000, Abderrahman Najjar wrote:
>​May I ask what are the patches applied? i.e. what's the difference
>between the package in the repo, and a vanilla source compiled kernel?

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /var/abs/core/linux
total 396K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  674 May  8 00:06 change-default-console-loglevel.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181K May  8 00:06 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175K May  8 00:06 config.x86_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K May  8 00:06 linux.install
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  376 May  8 00:06 linux.preset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13K May  8 00:06 PKGBUILD
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep -i patch /var/abs/core/linux/PKGBUILD 
        "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/patch-${pkgver}.xz"
        "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/patch-${pkgver}.sign"
        'change-default-console-loglevel.patch')
  # add upstream patch
  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/patch-${pkgver}"
  # (relevant patch sent upstream: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/26/227)
  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/change-default-console-loglevel.patch"


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