Now we know that the change is a solution in search of a problem. The fact that they won't sign the patch tarballs anymore isn't a problem. All that heftig must do, is to make it download the complete tarball and its signature. Here you go: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.17.13.tar.xz https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.17.13.tar.sign ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On August 7, 2018 8:31 AM, Konstantin Shalygin via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also now to build the package locally you download the whole repository > > (~2 Gb compared to the ~110 Mb previously). > > Oh... > > Cloning into bare repository '/tmp/4.17-arch/archlinux-linux'... > remote: Counting objects: 6135977, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1099/1099), done. > remote: Total 6135977 (delta 984), reused 385 (delta 385), pack-reused > 6134493 > Receiving objects: 100% (6135977/6135977), 2.07 GiB | 1.03 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (5111928/5111928), done. > > 33 minutes to fetch kernel. > > If this changeset is good for arch infrastructure builds, may be tar.xz > will be also provided, via github releases for example. > > k
