On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:25:51PM +0100, Javier Domingo Cansino wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to package rtai, which was already packaged some years ago. I > want to make it easily updatable, and I have a problem. > > RTAI is a kernel patch and some other stuff. > I am now trying to obtain the linux config for an specific arch kernel. > > I was trying to extract it from packages.git, but it's a monstrous repo > and not a good way to obtain the needed object without downloading it all > . > > The svn version is also quite > hacky > , but more affordable, I would svn log, search for the most close version > bump commit and extract that config file (along with the patch). > > Is there any recommended method to build a linux kernel of X version > without having to package the config files? > > Or maybe a git tree that is smaller and reasonable to clone.
You can use asp[0] to do a piecemeal checkout. 'asp checkout linux' will give you a tidy git repo with full history of the package. dR [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/asp-git/