I am an avid distkernel user because of the convenience: a distkernel package builds a kernel, packages it nicely so it can be binhost-distributed and generates initramfs'es without me having to think about them too much. This works perfectly for "daily" kernel updates but when I want to git-bisect a certain problem, I'm back to the "old" way of working, which I have almost forgotten how to do. Which kernel configuration file to use might not be super well-defined, but I hope smarter people can maybe come up with something flexible :) Filing this bug after short exchange on #gentoo-dist-kernel with sam_ who would use it to easily build RC kernels. Reproducible: Always
(In reply to Kobboi from comment #0) > This works perfectly for "daily" kernel updates but when I want to > git-bisect a certain problem, I'm back to the "old" way of working, which I > have almost forgotten how to do. > I think this is a compliment! :) > Filing this bug after short exchange on #gentoo-dist-kernel with sam_ who > would use it to easily build RC kernels. > Yeah, especially useful for the HPPA stuff we have to keep testing. I think it's worth doing. Not a priority for me at the moment but I'd like to see it happen and am likely to work on it at some point if nobody else does.
I think this was done with: commit b8143a221fb504ea5677be8264174075818ab208 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Jun 2 17:49:13 2023 +0200 sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel: Add 5.15.9999 live ebuild Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> commit 5d0a0acd381786abb3fd56a6d1d79ceb61d31928 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Jun 2 17:48:14 2023 +0200 sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel: Update configs in live ebuilds Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> commit addb7b2886f1a665e857071c3112c589baf653f6 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Jun 2 17:47:35 2023 +0200 sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel: Add 6.1.9999 live ebuild Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
