[RFC] Easiest making kernel rpms from upstream git

[Harald Hoyer]

On 08/28/2013 08:31 PM, 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

That should be:

   $ depmod -a
   $ dracut /boot/initramfs-3.11.0-rc1+.img 3.11.0-rc1+

> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
>>
>> [0]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ignatenkobrain/Kernel/Bisection
>> [1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Build_Upstream_Test_Kernel
>>
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