On 20 August 2013 13:50, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I've got a kernel bug where a developer has asked me to try a git >> bisect. Does anyone have tips for doing a kernel bisect with fedora >> kernel packages? I found a koji bisect thing, but the last known good >> kernel is prior to the fedora release the machine is currently >> running, so not sure that is an option. Or do I just have to grit my > > That shouldn't really be an issue for the most part. It would only > impact you if you're hitting issues in an area where the config > options differ between releases, and those are fairly uncommon. You > can try using koji bisect to start with to at least save yourself some > time. > >> teeth and try to get vanilla kernels built and installed? >> Other packages I've just dropped the bisected source directly into my >> rpmbuild, but guessing it's not going to be quite that simple here. > > Basically, the best bet is to copy the fedora kernel config into a > kernel git tree and just use git bisect, make bzImage, make modules, > make modules_install, make install. If you want to save some build > time, trim the config to not include the bajillion modules we ship. >
That's great, thanks for the advice. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
