How do I set up an ABS based workflow?

manasij7479 · 2017-07-12 22:34:41

I am building the kernel with ABS.
The recommended way to put your own patches seems to be maintaining a patch and patch the new source in prepare().

If I want to incrementally develop on the kernel fetched the first time, is modifying the PKGBUILD enough to reflect that?
(Am I missing some 'magic' in another step that is done automatically?)

If you have a similar workflow, how does it look like?

Trilby · 2017-07-12 23:35:54

manasij7479 wrote:

If I want to incrementally develop on the kernel fetched the first time, is modifying the PKGBUILD enough to reflect that?

This doesn't make sense. If you want to fetch new upstream source (a new kernel version) then modifying the PKGBUILD's pkgver would be enough to do that. If you don't want to fetch new source, then don't modify anything. Just rerun makepkg on what you already have.

JohnBobSmith · 2017-07-12 23:53:26

I haven't built a kernel in a while, but the basic workflow for me is really simple. Acquire sources > patch > configure with one of the included CLI tools > setup compiler flags, anything else that is needed such as modprobed-db, which I highly recommend > compile. The order of tasks may vary. For a very minimal kernel on dual core APU compiling takes about 20 minutes. Compile times will vary greatly depending on your system of course. Hopefully this gives you an idea of how the process works. Also read as much of the wiki documentation as you can. A search for "How do I compile my kernel Arch Linux" should do the trick.

karol · 2017-07-14 14:43:02

R.I.P. ABS: https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-abs/

Last edited by karol (2017-07-14 14:57:17)

Trilby · 2017-07-14 14:44:44

ABS != abs. The Arch Build System isn't going anywhere.

karol · 2017-07-14 14:57:23

Argh, you're right, Trilby. svn and friends are still there.

ewaller · 2017-07-14 16:13:14

Hello Karol! Always good to hear from you

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#1 2017-07-12 22:34:41

How do I set up an ABS based workflow?

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