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steelwing

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Registered: 2016-09-22

Posts: 25

Help building a kernel from "stable" tree

Suppose Archlinux's kernel builds have moved on to version 4.18.x.  Is it possible for me to still build a 4.17 kernel using ABS?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,373

Re: Help building a kernel from "stable" tree

Yes just checkout the commit of the 4.17 based release of linux you are interested in.
Edit:

git clone git://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git --single-branch --branch "packages/linux"
cd packages/
git log #from the log found the commit for 4.17-1
git checkout 19e67dc25af64dcdc15c365fba6378db45a23d2f
cd trunk
cat PKGBUILD #confirm this is the version you want then build as normal

Last edited by loqs (2018-06-26 13:32:42)

steelwing

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Registered: 2016-09-22

Posts: 25

Re: Help building a kernel from "stable" tree

Yes just checkout the commit of the 4.17 based release of linux you are interested in.
Edit:

git clone git://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git --single-branch --branch "packages/linux"
cd packages/
git log #from the log found the commit for 4.17-1
git checkout 19e67dc25af64dcdc15c365fba6378db45a23d2f
cd trunk
cat PKGBUILD #confirm this is the version you want then build as normal

What if the 4.17 version I want is not one that Arch ever used?  Say, for instance, I wanted to build 4.17.8, but Arch had switched to the 4.18 series after 4.17.7.  They wouldn't have 4.17.8 in their tree.  Could I still build 4.17.8 using ABS?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,373

Re: Help building a kernel from "stable" tree

Pick that last version arch provided then update pkgver to the version you want then run updpkgsums to update the checksums.
Or start with linux-git change the git tree to linux-stable set the commit/tag for the release you want and ensure the .config is the one you want.

steelwing

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Registered: 2016-09-22

Posts: 25

Re: Help building a kernel from "stable" tree

Pick that last version arch provided then update pkgver to the version you want then run updpkgsums to update the checksums.
Or start with linux-git change the git tree to linux-stable set the commit/tag for the release you want and ensure the .config is the one you want.

Cool, thanks.