On 04.03.21 16:59, Don Zickus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Hi Don! Do you still have this "git merge >> redhat-infra" idea you mentioned a few weeks ago on your radar? Now >> that Fedora starts to use kernel-ark for stable kernels as well it would >> be really nice to have something like that that at hand... At least for >> me. ;-) CU, knurd > I am trying to put it on my radar, unfortunately other priorities keep > bumping it way down.
Yeah, happens, no worries. > I just had this conversation the other day with Justin > and he explained to me about how the community would see this as useful. > > Let me try to find an hour to sketch a workflow for this. It shouldn't be > hard, just need to pencil it out. Thx! > Just to remind myself of your expectation. > > * I take os-build spin off the 'redhat' directory (and other infra pieces) > into a branch called 'redhat-infra'??? or something better I'd prefer to not have "redhat" in there (but I can live with it if we don't find anything better). How about "ark-infra". "ark-packaging" or something like that? > * that branch is built from scratch daily? weekly? Daily would be good to pick up the latest changes to the config files that get merged to ark. > * a git-merge of said branch on any upstream branch should just work > * rebasing that branch does prevent a proper 'git merge' update as a > downside. :-/ >> Did I capture that right? Yes afaics. FWIW, this is how I hope to use it: * create a throwaway branch based on mainline, stable or stable-rc kernels * run something like "make fedora-srpm" * build this srpm with mock or koji scratch-build * profit ;-) CU, knurd >> On 25.11.20 18:27, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> Am 25.11.20 um 15:43 schrieb Don Zickus: >>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:10:21AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>>> Am 24.11.20 um 23:22 schrieb GitLab Bridge on behalf of dzickusrh: >>>>>> From: Don Zickus <[email protected]> >>>>>> The workflow has recently changed such that all development is done >>>>>> on the 'os-build' branch. Update the docs to show how easy it is >>>>>> to make a change, commit it, generate the srpm and upload it to koji. >>>>>> […] >>>>> >>>>> While you are dealing with this a quick question: What's the best way >>>>> to use >>>>> the ark tree to build a vanilla kernel these days? >>>> My plan at the time was to auto-create another branch say 'redhat-infra' >>> >>> How about "build-infra" or "rh-build-infra"? (for the record: I find all >>> those redhat and rh terms in ark slightly annoying, because it's sending >>> the wrong message to community contributes, but well, one more "rh" or >>> less now doesn't matter anymore...) >>> >>>> (bad name I know) that stripped Red Hat patches out of os-build >>>> leaving just >>>> the redhat/ directory on top of upstream 'linus' branch. >>>> >>>> Then you could take any upstream branch and just 'git merge >>>> redhat-infra' to >>>> quickly add in the RH infrastructure pieces. And that would address your >>>> concern, I believe. >>> >>> Yes, that should work for me. >>> >>>> However, that did slip off my radar and I never finished writing that >>>> script >>>> to generate that branch. >>> >>> Happens, no worries, I might have made more noise earlier if I actually >>> had been using ark as base for my vanilla builds ;-) >>> >>>> But assuming I did finish that script, would the spirit of that approach >>>> work for you? (aside from a better name [suggestions welcome]) >>> >>> Afaics yes(¹). And of course I'm willing to test and fine-tune this. >>> >>> Ciao, Thorsten >>> >>> (¹) while at please let me state a remotely related general wish, maybe >>> it's something that might be useful for others as well: for my use case >>> it would be ideal if redhat/configs/fedora/ in ark would also contain >>> which config settings ideally need to be set differently when building a >>> kernel for an older release. Right now one of the few differences (apart >>> from new config options) between rawhide and F32 for example is >>> CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS: in rawhide it's not set, in F32 it's enabled. >>> Having this information directly in ark as a override (maybe in >>> redhat/configs/fedora/32/, redhat/configs/fedora/overrides/f32/, or >>> something like that) would be useful for me; and I guess it would be >>> useful for the Fedora's kernel maintainers as well, in case they start >>> building kernels for released Fedora version from ark sooner or later as >>> well (which I assume is the long term plan – or not?). >> _______________________________________________ >> kernel mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >> Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > > _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
