Helping bug reporters test upstream kernel patches

[Geir Ove Myhr]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Leann Ogasawara
<leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 12:00 +0200, Geir Ove Myhr wrote:
> [...]
>> Is there any infrastructure available for building patched kernels
>> packages of the Ubuntu and mainline kernels? A PPA seems to be a bit
>> of an overkill, since it builds much more packages than what is needed
>> for testing. Making avaiable linux-image*.deb and linux-headers*.deb
>> like Leann has done at http://people.canonical.com/~ogasawara/
>> (folders lp*) seems more to the point. I also don't know how to
>> effortlessly put a patched mainline build into a PPA.
>
> Thanks for the email and especially for working with bug reporters to
> try to build them a patched kernel to test.  Unfortunately we don't have
> a build infrastructure available for the general public to leverage
> other than using a PPA for ex like you mentioned.  If it's more urgent,
> always feel free to jump in #ubuntu-kernel on FreeNode and request a
> helping hand.  I'm sure one of us would be willing to kick off a build
> for you.

Thank you. I will try to ask on #ubuntu-kernel next time.

I just remembered why I stopped building on my laptop (after trying
once more): my home directory partition is almost full and fills up
completely during a kernel build.

Geir Ove