On 2018-11-15 9:15 p.m., Paul Eggleton wrote:
Hi Bruce
I just came across this the other day and I had one question:
On Sunday, 19 August 2018 2:50:44 PM NZDT Bruce Ashfield wrote:
The existing kernel-devsrc package starts with a full copy of the kernel
source and then starts to strip out elements that are not required.
This results in extra time (I/O) and extra space being taken up in the
final package. The main purpose of the kernel-devsrc package has been to
build modules against the running kernel, not to include a full copy of
the source code for re-building the kernel. The end result was a
600M kernel-devsrc package.
This restructuring of the package uses an approach similar to other
distros, where the kernel-devsrc package is for building against the
running kernel and uses a curated set of copied infrastructure, versus
a mass copy of the entire kernel.
...
- There is also a symlink from /lib/modules/<version>/source -> build
to reserve a spot for a new package that is simply the kernel
source. That package is not part of this update.
Did you manage to get to this or is it still planned?
We did get to it, and it is in the 2.6 release.
Bruce
Thanks,
Paul
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