bisect on fedora kernels

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 22:59:30 UTC 2013


> On 20 August 2013 13:50, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>>
>> That shouldn't really be an issue for the most part.  It would only
>> impact you if you're hitting issues in an area where the config
>> options differ between releases, and those are fairly uncommon.  You
>> can try using koji bisect to start with to at least save yourself some
>> time.

>> Basically, the best bet is to copy the fedora kernel config into a
>> kernel git tree and just use git bisect, make bzImage, make modules,
>> make modules_install, make install.  If you want to save some build
>> time, trim the config to not include the bajillion modules we ship.
>>
>

Just to follow up, thanks, your instructions for building worked fine
(I'd worried it wouldn't be so straightforward). Thought I'd best
mention koji-bisect doesn't seem to exist anymore (in case anyone else
finds this thread).

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