bisect on fedora kernels

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 29 00:53:57 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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).

Er... it doesn't?  Where did you try to get it from, and how did it fail?

josh


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