Fedora kernel bisect advice?
I need to bisect the Fedora kernel to track down a bug and would some
advice on workflow and tips for speeding up builds.
My current approach is to start by cloning the linus kernel and cloning
the fedora kernel package. I cloned a git0 version of the package. I am
replacing the rc patch by doing a git diff versus the 3.11 kernel and
piping it through xz. I then use fedpkg local to build the test kernel.
There weren't too many Fedora patches in the period of interest, but
potentially I might need to add or remove one of these. The main issue
is that the builds take long enough that I am only going to be able to
do one test a day. I am building on i686 and really only need one of
the PAE or non-PAE kernels and I don't need any of the other rpms
(notably the doc rpm).
Does this workflow seem sane?
Is there any easy way to do the builds faster? (I'm thinking by not
building all of the rpms, but other approaches are welcome.)