On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:33:07 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 13:22 +0200, Bjoern Franke wrote: > > > Thanks yes it has changed so much from the old days of early Suse > > Hi, > > assuming you didn't build RPM packages, it's still more or less the > same, especially if you use an Arch config, so that you don't need to > care about the configuration by yourself. I just glanced over the Wiki, > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel/Traditional_compilation , unless > I'm missing it, it doesn't mention the patch command, but patch usage > didn't change at all. > > Building an Arch package is described by the Arch Wiki, too. You can > build a new package by more or less only doing copy and paste, > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel/Arch_build_system . > > The last kernel package I build was an apt package for linux 6.2.9 on > Xubuntu. The only pitfall with 6+ kernels might be RAM. I read about RAM > space issues even when not building in tmpfs. At least I didn't run into > an issue with 32 GiB of RAM, when building the 6.2.9 kernel not in > tmpfs. > > > You can also use "downgrade" to downgrade to the last working 6.5.x > > kernel and put it into IgnorePkg. > > This is a good idea. Btw. "downgrade" is provided by the chaotic-aur > repository, > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/unofficial_user_repositories . > > After installing downgrade you only need to run > > sudo downgrade linux linux-docs linux-headers > > and select the desired packages from the lists. It seems to have a new > interface. Providing the package lists is a little bit delayed on my > machine now. > > Regards, > Ralf Hi Ralf Thanks i may well get tempted to try rolling my own again it was something i used to do more than once a day at one time time to wake the old grey cells up i will read up on the Wiki . I miss not having my tv card working Cheers Pete
