[aur-general] Linux packaging

[Dave Reisner]

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/