[aur-general] Linux packaging

[Javier Domingo Cansino]

I don't like adding such a dependency, but you indirectly guided me to the
solution. The packages.git repo has a branch for each package where only
that package's history is kept. That's all I needed to know, thank you very
much!

I will now create a script to extract the commit I need,

Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:

> 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/
>



-- 
Javier Domingo Cansino