Re: What distro can run recent backports?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 07/16/2018 01:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 07/16/2018 12:44 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 10:49 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to make backports work with my 4.16-ct kernel.  I tried Fedora-27, but it has
>>> some bug relate to spatch so it cannot run there.
>>
>> I think it's an upstream spatch bug. You could use an older version and
>> revert the recent genl_const patch.
>>
>> I'm on F27 but haven't gotten it to work recently (and am out for the
>> next ~4 weeks)
>>
>> johannes
>
> Thanks, I did try reverting the patch, and that got me farther, and after
> more hacking on some incompatible patches and some Kconfig issues,
> I got it to start building, and then it blew up all over the place.
>
> This patch is part of what I used, by the way:
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/backports/msg04115.html
>
> It seems like a fragile house of cards, and I think maybe I should just
> go back to manually copying files around and then fixing the incompatibilities.


It looks like much of my problem was that I tried the '--integrate' option.  It seems
mostly broken.  Maybe someone can update gentree to warn loudly if someone tries to
use that option?

Thanks,
Ben

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