Re: [RFC] Easiest making kernel rpms from upstream git
On 08/28/2013 07:23 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
Today I've wrote article w/ many notes about bisecting kernel
[0], but
I've used make bzImage, make install and the same commands bypassing RPM
and I have IMHO good idea to write utility, that will be build rpm w/o/
Fedora patches, changelogs, etc. simple rpms w/ one command.
We will use "utilityname `git rev-parse HEAD` f19" instead of "make
bzImage && make modules" and "yum install ./rpms/*.rpm" instead of
"make
install && make modules_install".
This software should increase the effectiveness, simplify the build test
kernels, simplify to work w/ installed kernels (e.g. remove). Also we
can easy provide rpms to bugreport for testing regressions, etc.
Incidentally, just today, I was building upstream kernels manually (for testing some KVM
specific things). I don't build Kernels often. After some trial and error, I ended up
with
this sequence:
$ make -j6 && make bzImage && make modules
$ make modules_install && make install
Couple of times Dracut failed to generate correct initramfs, resulting in froze. With a
hint from Haralad Hoyer on IRC, I generated the initramfs manually (usually, using the
host initrd should be sufficient):
$ dracut /boot/initramfs-3.11.0-rc1+.img 3.11.0-rc1+
$ depmod -a
I see alike software at bubuntu wiki [1].
Would anyone besides me find this useful enough for me to keep working
on it?
Sure, I can certainly be a user here :-) . Note to self: Still have to debug/bisect an
offending Kernel commit which is causing some KVM unit test failures.
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/kashyap