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assimilat

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Registered: 2012-07-26

Posts: 8

Persistant kernel compilation arguments?

Hi I have a Lenovo laptop that has some pretty major issues with its DSDT which I have fixed but seeing as how it requires the kernel to be recompiled with the patched DSDT every time I want to update I have just been living with the quirks of the horrid OEM DSDT. I was wondering if there is a way that I can specify in pacman.conf (or anywhere else for that matter) that when I run an -Syu and there is an updated kernel for it to just automatically recompile it and issue a user defined patch? That way I wouldnt have to do it manually every time I want to update which is a P.I.T.A. Sorry if this has been brought up before I couldnt find my answer via the search or the wiki (but I might have missed something)

Thanks!
Andrew

the sad clown

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From: 192.168.0.X

Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 837

Re: Persistant kernel compilation arguments?

I don't think pacman can do that, since it is installing an already compiled binary.  As far as I know, pacman has no compiling function.  You have to use makepkg, which means you have to do it yourself with ABS.

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chris_l

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Registered: 2010-12-01

Posts: 390

Re: Persistant kernel compilation arguments?

There is not such thing, as far as I know.

But you could try to create an script that automatically downloads the latest PKGBUILD and other files from https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … ages/linux, downloads the patch for DSDT for the kernel version, alters the PKGBUILD to apply it and to rename the package to linux-dsdt or something, makepkg it, and then calling sudo pacman -U <blabla>

...of course, that may fail sometimes, but with some luck, most of the time you will only have to call that script and thats it.

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