Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 139, Issue 15

2016-05-17 Thread Information Technology Works
On 05/17/2016 11:16 AM, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > I started some preliminary work with Levente, and first indications are that > we should see very little in terms of performance impact. I have begun work > on an automated testing framework, which will be located here: > https:

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 139, Issue 14

2016-05-17 Thread Jonathan Roemer
> On May 17, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Information Technology Works > wrote: > > ohh, ok. that makes sense. I would be glad to benchmark as many packages > as needed, assuming someone doesn't mind telling me how it needs to be > done. I started some preliminary work with Levente, and first indicatio

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 139, Issue 14

2016-05-17 Thread Information Technology Works
On 05/17/2016 07:00 AM, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > In the past there has been various (performance) reasons with gcc5 that > hold up stepping further, so the decision was to not backport gcc6 > patches and wait for gcc6 so arrive. Fortunately gcc6 arrived so the > topic landed agai

Re: [arch-general] Kernel version in hooks

2016-05-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
On 17 May 2016 at 14:50, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel > package update? so I ended up with this (for now): https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/dd94057318f9c68327066068cacf99bc The reason was, I needed to run mkinitcpio by hand for

Re: [arch-general] Kernel version in hooks

2016-05-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>>> Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel >>> package update? >> >> by version I mean the "4.5.4-1-ARCH" kernel version, not the "4.5.4-1" >> package version > > > How do you detect the kernel package upgrade? If you use the path to its > modules, you can add "Needs

Re: [arch-general] Kernel version in hooks

2016-05-17 Thread ProgAndy
Am 17.05.2016 um 14:51 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: On 17 May 2016 at 14:50, Damjan Georgievski wrote: Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel package update? by version I mean the "4.5.4-1-ARCH" kernel version, not the "4.5.4-1" package version How do you detec

Re: [arch-general] Kernel version in hooks

2016-05-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
On 17 May 2016 at 14:50, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel > package update? by version I mean the "4.5.4-1-ARCH" kernel version, not the "4.5.4-1" package version -- damjan

[arch-general] Kernel version in hooks

2016-05-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel package update? -- damjan