On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 6:21 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 8:01 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 5:50 AM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 3:21 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Neal, > > > > > > > > Thanks for these very helpful instructions. In trying to implement > > > > this, one snag I encountered was that the .src.rpm file has inside of > > > > it the linux-{version}.tar.xz file that I actually want. Is there > > > > anywhere on the internet that hosts these .tar.xz files directly? > > > > > > > > > > There *is*, but that starts getting into using the CentOS Git system > > > more directly. Per your original email, you weren't interested in that > > > path, so I didn't go there. > > > > Well, one trick is that most web git viewers (such as cgit) can > > produce a tarball on the fly from a URL. Something like this exist > > here? > > So, CentOS uses a Dist-Git[1] system, which means the part that is > actually tracked in git is the packaging files, and there's an > associated binary repo reference stored in the Git repo for fetching > binary artifacts. Dist-Git is the common ancestor to virtually all > current approaches to storing binaries efficiently alongside a Git > repo (Git-Annex and Git LFS came much later). > > It seems it's possible to do this without having to use Git itself > (which is better than with git-annex and git-lfs), but it's a bit > cumbersome... > > The way that you'd fetch the tarball in this scenario would be to > something like the following: > > 1. Get the tags via API, but with commits: > > $ curl --silent --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ > https://git.centos.org/api/0/rpms/kernel/git/tags?with_commits=true \ > | jq '.["tags"] ' > > This gives you now a JSON dictionary with the tags as keys and the > associated commit as values. > > 2. Get the corresponding commit and fetch the .kernel.metadata file > containing the lookaside references: > > $ curl --silent > https://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/raw/${kernel_tag_commit}/f/.kernel.metadata > \ > > kernel_sources > > 3. Fetch the source matching to your kernel source package: > > $ wget https://git.centos.org/sources/kernel/${rel}/${kernel_src_checksum} \ > --output-document=${kernel_src_filename} > > The $kernel_src_checksum and $kernel_src_filename would be populated > from the entries in the kernel_sources files you downloaded earlier. > > Note: $rel is either "c7" or "c8" depending on which one you're trying to get. > > > [1]: https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git
Perfect, thanks. CentOS kernels are now on https://www.wireguard.com/build-status/ , though el7 is having build issues.
