On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 6:07 AM Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Lo! The new stable workflow based on kernel-ark confuses me and I want
> to ask for advice if I got something wrong or if things are really as
> they appear to me:
>
> The sources file in dist.git for the Fedora 34 kernel currently(¹)
> refers to a file that is called linux-5.11.1.tar.xz – but if you
> download ("fedpkg sources") and unpack that file and look closer, you'll
> notice that it actually contains the sources from Linux 5.11 (and not
> 5.11.1).
>
> Is that intentional or just an mistake that someone did somewhere?
> Because I find that really confusing.
>
> Once I looked closer I noticed that the diff from Linux 5.11 -> 5.11.1
> can actually be found in the file patch-5.11.1-redhat.patch (
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/f34/f/patch-5.11.1-redhat.patch
Yes, this is a mistake, and the 5.11.1 patches should in fact be in
the linux-5.11.1.tar.xz I looked at the built RPM and not at the
tarballs. This was the first build with the merge from linux-5.11.y.
It is a process as so much of it was hard coded against linus' tree as
opposed to stable trees. Will get that fixed soom.
Justin
> ) - entangled with Fedora specific patches. I didn't try, but I'm
> therefore pretty sure that rebuilding the kernel SRPM using
> "--with-vanilla" (for details see
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/f34/f/kernel.spec
> ) will lead to unexpected results (I guess you will get a kernel that
> partly thinks it's 5.11.1, but in truth is 5.11; if that acutally boot I
> suspect users won't be able to spot this).
>
> Are things really as described above or did I get something wrong?
> Because it looks utterly confusing to me.
>
> I have some issues with the whole kernel-ark workflow for a while now
> and hence for a few week already considered asking on the Fedora
> packaging list (the Fedora Packaging Committe's list) for advice if
> kernel.spec violates the packaging guidelines too much (a complex
> package like the kernel likely will always have some issues). I guess
> this will finally make me do that, but before going down that route I
> wanted to check here if I got something wrong.
>
> CU, knurd
>
> (¹) as of
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/c/07992209452cd7ba529ffdbdd83d01d44cd8ae14?branch=f34
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