[aur-general] Linux packaging

[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 at 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 at kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
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> Javier Domingo Cansino
>



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