[RFC] Easiest making kernel rpms from upstream git

[Igor Gnatenko]

On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 00:01 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for interesting. I've created repo [0] w/ this package. It's raw
yet.
> 
> > 
> > [0]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ignatenkobrain/Kernel/Bisection
> > [1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Build_Upstream_Test_Kernel
> > 
> 
> 
[0]https://github.com/ignatenkobrain/kernel-package

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Igor Gnatenko
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