linux VS kiss

Thanks! Was able to get it with "git clone --depth=1 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/" which gave me a folder which I do indeed appear to be able to patch as typical.

mkdir -o $HOME/build cd $HOME/build git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git cd linux git checkout v6.2.6

I'm expanding my knowledge of git. I'm trying to track down a regression in the Linux kernel built for arm64 (specifically Raspberry Pi 4B.) The problem does not appear in the v5.18 and does appear in v5.19. I have cloned https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ and am working with that. Here is where I'm trying to start.

git repo for 5.15.y https://github.com/gregkh/linux branch: linux-5.15.y

Maintenance point releases are done by the Linux stable tree maintainers; see here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/

Where did you get that URL? The clone URL is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ (You're missing a "linux/" between scm and kernel.)

-> Generic Desktop (Performance) profile will be used. -> -> Installing dependencies [sudo] password for root:   Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 'patch' is already installed. No update candidate for 'patch-2.7.6-3.5.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'gcc-c++' is already installed. No update candidate for 'gcc-c++-7-3.9.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'make' is already installed. No update candidate for 'make-4.2.1-7.3.2.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'ncurses-devel' is already installed. No update candidate for 'ncurses-devel-6.1-5.6.2.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'bison' is already installed. No update candidate for 'bison-3.0.4-3.3.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'flex' is already installed. No update candidate for 'flex-2.6.4-3.157.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'bc' is already installed. No update candidate for 'bc-1.07.1-11.37.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'libqt5-qtbase-common-devel' is already installed. No update candidate for 'libqt5-qtbase-common-devel-5.12.7-4.12.2.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'libelf-devel' is already installed. No update candidate for 'libelf-devel-0.168-4.5.3.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'libqt5-qtbase-devel' is already installed. No update candidate for 'libqt5-qtbase-devel-5.12.7-4.12.2.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'ccache' is already installed. No update candidate for 'ccache-3.4.2-1.9.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'git' is already installed. No update candidate for 'git-2.31.1-10.3.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'openssl-devel' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. 'libopenssl-devel' providing 'openssl-devel' is already installed. 'elfutils' is already installed. No update candidate for 'elfutils-0.168-4.5.3.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'rpm-build' is already installed. No update candidate for 'rpm-build-4.14.3-37.2.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'dwarves' is already installed. No update candidate for 'dwarves-1.19-bp153.1.13.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'lz4' is already installed. No update candidate for 'lz4-1.9.2-3.3.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'libXi-devel' is already installed. No update candidate for 'libXi-devel-1.7.9-3.2.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'pesign' is already installed. No update candidate for 'pesign-0.112-4.9.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. 'rpmdevtools' is already installed. No update candidate for 'rpmdevtools-8.10-bp153.1.12.noarch'. The highest available version is already installed. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. kernel.org      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git (fetch) kernel.org      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git (push) googlesource.com        https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable (fetch) googlesource.com        https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable (push) -> Current branch: -> Reseting files to their original state fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git [...] -- [...]' -> exit cleanup done

I knew where to find the tarballs. I was asking where to find a git repo I could use to bisect in a more granular fashion. Anyway, someone else pointed me to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/, which is what I needed (it has a branch that corresponds to the lts releases).

For something that's more of a prepackaged build-your-own-Linux kit, KISS Linux[0] is also interesting. It's kind of a microdistro with minimal abstraction over the raw guts, and "packages" are just pre-downloaded source code repos that you compile yourself.

The "package manager" is just a shell script. The installation process[1] is entirely manual, so you control every step as you bootstrap up to building your own kernel and installing each subsystem all the way up to compiling and running Firefox. It's pretty neat.

[0] https://kisslinux.org/

[1] https://kisslinux.org/install

kiss with kiss-xorg, nsxiv, st, dmenu with script, tewi, fet.sh

kisslinux.org

A good Bash code to read is some projects from GH user dylanaraps a creator of neofetch and KISS Linux (kiss is a package manager written in POSIX sh) another repo to explore is bashbox (forked from dylanaraps/bareutils) A coreutils written in pure bash.

See KISS for examples - this is a real desktop system used by some people (including me... hopefully)