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rebegin

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

hello,

i tried to install  kernel26-ck with yaourt and also generating package with makepkg -s but all i got is a 419Byte package only with .PKGNFO in it.

edit: i left the default 300 HZ when it asked for Timer frequency...

what am i doing wrong?
thanks in advance

Last edited by rebegin (2009-12-14 14:00:56)

tomk

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

flamelab, read the question again:

Will normal nvidia package work with kernel26-ck?

I'm pretty sure "normal nvidia package" means "nvidia package from the extra repo", in which case the answer is "no, it won't work with kernel26-ck".

ammon - you need to rebuild the nvidia package for any non-standard kernel.

tomk

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

rebegin - if that's really all you got, there should have been tons of error messages during the build - did you read any of them?

Try again, and use makepkg -L to generate a build log.

bangkok_manouel

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

everyone pay respect to our former -ck kernel maintainer
any plan to bring it back to life ?

rebegin

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

rebegin - if that's really all you got, there should have been tons of error messages during the build - did you read any of them?

Try again, and use makepkg -L to generate a build log.

thanks for the suggestion.
i haven't seen any error messages during the build.
also tried to to makepkg -L but then it falis where i have to choose Timer frequency:

Timer frequency                                                                                       
  1. 100 HZ (HZ_100)                                                                                  
  2. 250 HZ (HZ_250_NODEFAULT) (NEW)
> 3. 300 HZ (HZ_300)
  4. 1000 HZ (HZ_1000)
  5. 1500 HZ (HZ_1500) (NEW)
  6. 2000 HZ (HZ_2000) (NEW)
  7. 3000 HZ (HZ_3000) (NEW)
  8. 4000 HZ (HZ_4000) (NEW)
  9. 5000 HZ (HZ_5000) (NEW)
  10. 7500 HZ (HZ_7500) (NEW)
  11. 10000 HZ (HZ_10000) (NEW)
choice[1-11?]: aborted!

Console input/output is redirected. Run 'make oldconfig' to update configuration.

make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1
make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2
make: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'.  Stop.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...

edit: running 'make oldconfig' didn't help of course

Last edited by rebegin (2009-12-14 15:20:25)

tomk

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

everyone pay respect to our former -ck kernel maintainer
any plan to bring it back to life ?

Thanks

I'm neither a dev or a TU anymore, so I'll leave it to someone else. Everyone vote for MP2E's package, and then annoy some TU(s) until it gets into community.

brenix

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Registered: 2008-03-05

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Is the kernel26-ck package supposed to generate the kernel images like the kernel26-bfs package, or does it replace the current vanilla kernel? I don't see any kernel26-ck.img or vmlinuz-ck files in /boot? mkinitpcio didn't run on two computers....

rebegin

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Is the kernel26-ck package supposed to generate the kernel images like the kernel26-bfs package, or does it replace the current vanilla kernel? I don't see any kernel26-ck.img or vmlinuz-ck files in /boot? mkinitpcio didn't run on two computers....

this is what happened on my pc too...

hth90nor

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Yaourt don't do anything with the kernel26.install file.

brenix

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

this is what happened on my pc too...

Yaourt don't do anything with the kernel26.install file.

Try un-commenting line 6 of the PKGBUILD and comment out line 5. That seemed to work for me..

hth90nor

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Worked perfectly brenix thanks.

ngoonee

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

everyone pay respect to our former -ck kernel maintainer
any plan to bring it back to life ?

Thanks

I'm neither a dev or a TU anymore, so I'll leave it to someone else. Everyone vote for MP2E's package, and then annoy some TU(s) until it gets into community.

Do ANY kernels stand a chance of [community]?

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rebegin

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

worked here too, thanks

this is what happened on my pc too...

Yaourt don't do anything with the kernel26.install file.

Try un-commenting line 6 of the PKGBUILD and comment out line 5. That seemed to work for me..

tomk

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Do ANY kernels stand a chance of [community]?

I don't see why not. All you need is a sufficiently interested TU (like I used to be ).

MP2E

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

this is what happened on my pc too...

Yaourt don't do anything with the kernel26.install file.

Try un-commenting line 6 of the PKGBUILD and comment out line 5. That seemed to work for me..

Damnit, I had a feeling that would be a problem. Unfortunately the only reason line 5 exists is because the AUR won't allow more than one pkgname in a PKGBUILD. I'll post up a comment saying to comment out line 5 and uncomment line 6 (that's how I did it myself), however this seems pretty annoying. Is there any better way to do this? Or shall I get on the AUR mailing lists and harass them?

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ngoonee

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Do ANY kernels stand a chance of [community]?

I don't see why not. All you need is a sufficiently interested TU (like I used to be ).

I remember seeing a wiki page explaining why some packages would never be considered for binary distribution, such as yaourt, from the 'official' repos, no matter how many votes they got. I thought I saw there that alternative kernels would never be considered for such a thing.

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tomk

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

OK.. you probably need a current TU to comment then. Or ask on aur-general.

registeringsucks

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

How do i get things like ossv4 to work with kernel26-ck? It demands some kernel-devel files, the aur package doesnt provide.
Or im a doing sth wrong on my side?

shining

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

How do i get things like ossv4 to work with kernel26-ck? It demands some kernel-devel files, the aur package doesnt provide.
Or im a doing sth wrong on my side?

Look a few comments above, #215

You have to enable header inside the pkgbuild and then install that package.

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registeringsucks

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

i did as instructed in that comment, however the kernel-headers simply dont appear anywhere after installation.

Procyon

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Another thing about that,
pkgname=('kernel26-ck' 'kernel26-firmware' 'kernel26-headers')

shouldn't the other two have a -ck extension too?

registeringsucks

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Another thing about that,
pkgname=('kernel26-ck' 'kernel26-firmware' 'kernel26-headers')

shouldn't the other two have a -ck extension too?

i wondered about that myself.
I tried to remove the kernel26-headers package that came with the stock kernel to avoid possible conflicts but that didnt help.
Ill guess i have to take another look at the pkgbuild...

MP2E

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Another thing about that,
pkgname=('kernel26-ck' 'kernel26-firmware' 'kernel26-headers')

shouldn't the other two have a -ck extension too?

i wondered about that myself.
I tried to remove the kernel26-headers package that came with the stock kernel to avoid possible conflicts but that didnt help.
Ill guess i have to take another look at the pkgbuild...

I've been debating that as well, but I think that kernel26-firmware conflicts with the official firmware anyway. I'd like to seperate them like I did with the kernel itself(renamed it to kernel26-ck.img and vmlinuz-ck.img) but I'm not sure how to go about doing this..

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17:24 < ConSiGno> you could call them nightly builds if you know what I mean

shining

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

I've been debating that as well, but I think that kernel26-firmware conflicts with the official firmware anyway. I'd like to seperate them like I did with the kernel itself(renamed it to kernel26-ck.img and vmlinuz-ck.img) but I'm not sure how to go about doing this..

pkgname=('kernel26-ck' 'kernel26-firmware' 'kernel26-headers')

That should definitely be kernel26-ck-headers instead. Using kernel26-headers for two different kernel is broken. You should be able to install kernel headers for arch kernel and for ck kernel in the same time.
And no conflict either because they should be installed to two different directories in /usr/src : /usr/src/linux-2.6.32-ARCH for arch and /usr/src/linux-2.6.32-ck or whatever for ck.

Don't bother with the firmware, they are not going to change, just strip everything related to kernel26-firmware from your pkgbuild.

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attila

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Re: omg! Con Kolivas is back!

Don't bother with the firmware, they are not going to change, just strip everything related to kernel26-firmware from your pkgbuild.

And if it is necessary to include them than remove the lines that you suggested, comment out "rm -rf ${pkgdir}/lib/firmware" and append "INSTALL_FW_PATH=$pkgdir/lib/firmware/${_basekernel}-${_kernelname}" to the line with the modules_install. The result will be that this files stays in /lib/firmware/2.6.32-ck at example and this alternative way to install the firmware is used by other distros too.

Example:

...
make INSTALL_FW_PATH=$pkgdir/lib/firmware/${_basekernel}-${_kernelname} \
       INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$pkgdir modules_install || return 1
...
#rm -rf ${pkgdir}/lib/firmware
...

I must admit that i never understand why the firmware files of the kernel package never be in "/lib/firmware/2.6.31-ARCH" as in other distros because than it is easier to see what is from the kernel and what is from a extra package. But this is not a big point.