[aur-general] Linux packaging

[Ido Rosen]

also
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/linux

or zcat /proc/config.gz on a running system

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Ido Rosen <ido at kernel.org> wrote:

> Some options:
>
> yaourt -G linux
>
>
> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/linux
>
> git clone packages.git with --depth 1 (shallow clone)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Javier Domingo Cansino <
> javierdo1 at 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,
>>
>
>