TIL - make pacman-pkg
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v6.11 of the upstream kernel makes it really easy to do kernel devlopment on Arch Linux with the new make pacman-pkg target [1]:
commit c8578539debaedfbb4671e1954be8ebbd1307c6f
Author: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Date: Sat Jul 20 11:18:12 2024 +0200
kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
pacman is the package manager used by Arch Linux and its derivates.
Creating native packages from the kernel tree has multiple advantages:
* The package triggers the correct hooks for initramfs generation and
bootloader configuration
* Uninstallation is complete and also invokes the relevant hooks
* New UAPI headers can be installed without any manual bookkeeping
The PKGBUILD file is a modified version of the one used for the
downstream Arch Linux "linux" package.
Extra steps that should not be necessary for a development kernel have
been removed and an UAPI header package has been added.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
No more manual steps for creating the corresponding initramfs or bootloader entries, just
1$ make pacman-pkg