Adam Borowski: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 09:32:31PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > > Adam Borowski: > > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 08:15:39PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > > download your kernel from your favourite site, e.g. > > > > ftp:ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/kernels/ > > > > > > Boo! Do you live in 20th century? It's a crime to not use git, > > > especially > > > when patches are involved. Even if they're not, you save time unpacking / > > > downloading updates / switching to other releases. > > > > > > git clone > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git > > > > Do you see any difference between the git repo and the tar file ? > > > > $ du -s linux-2.6 > > 3009716 linux-2.6 > > You want du -s .git only, as you're counting both packed and unpacked.
Yes, but my point still holds: $ du -s X/nouveau/linux-2.6/.git 1879408 X/nouveau/linux-2.6/.git $ du -s /Net/ftp/ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/kernels/v4.x/linux-4.0.tar.xz 80384 /Net/ftp/ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/kernels/v4.x/linux-4.0.tar.xz $ echo 1879408/80384 | bc 23 > > So for someone who has not compiled the kernel from source, I don't > > start with the git clone, especially since I don't know anything about > > their network connection. You might not believe it, but there are still > > people out there with (plain old telefon system) modems. > > Such people can specify --depth to make a shallow clone with no history. Well, why don't you present your advice to the proper target, write a howto and send it to the list. > But really, I don't see anyone who's capable of compiling their own kernel > use an acoustic modem today. You'd be surprised, but accept the fact that some people are not fortunate re. bandwidth. > And unlike tarballs, you clone from git once, then pull only commits you > don't have yet, so in the long run you save bandwidth. Yes, but we don't know if this or that person wants to do more than one compile. > > > > make > > > > make install > > > > make modules_install > > > > > > This won't let you uninstall cleanly, or deploy to other machines. > > > > That lets me deploy to machines without apt or dpkg. > > This mailing list happens to be for a distribution where both apt and dpkg > are Essential:yes packages. I'd expect people here to be more likely to > have FreeBSD/whatever machines than to use non-deb Linux. People on this on this are competent to decide for themself what they want, and that might not be what you expect. > > I don't uninstall kernels that ofthen so I don't mind the manual way. > > So you don't do security upgrades? Please, not unstalling does not imply not installing. And manual uninstall is rather benign. ... > > > make-kpkg will handle grub/lilo config automatically. > > > > I don't want that automation so I do: > > > > # cat /etc/kernel-img.conf > > do_symlinks = no > > do_bootloader = no > > silent_modules = yes > > warn_initrd = no > > Why not? ... It only gives me two kernels, current and old. /// And please get your tone down. There is no need for "boo" and other pejorative statements. I give my advice and you are welcome to present your in a civil tone. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
