Git was invented by Linus Thorvalds for managing the Linux-kernel-sources. So it’s pretty clear that it is the best tool for managing our own kernel-builds too. I love to use Docker. That’s why I also need the AUFS-Support which is not included in the Linux-Tree. Git can also help us to easily include external kernel-patches. In this article I will clone the linux tree and create an own branch with my prefered kernel-version(and my customized kernel-config). I will pull the AUFS-Patches directly into this branch and compile this kernel afterwards.
Cloning the Linux-Kernel:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
List all Tags:
git tag
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v4.3
v4.3-rc1
v4.3-rc2
v4.3-rc3
v4.3-rc4
v4.3-rc5
v4.3-rc6
v4.3-rc7
v4.4
v4.4-rc1
v4.4-rc2
v4.4-rc3
v4.4-rc4
v4.4-rc5
v4.4-rc6
v4.4-rc7
v4.4-rc8
Add AUFS-Remote:
git remote add aufs4 git://github.com/sfjro/aufs4-linux.git
Fetch AUFS:
git fetch aufs4
Create a new branch with kernel v4.4:
git checkout -b own4.4 v4.4
Pull AUFS into our new branch:
git pull aufs4 aufs4.4
Configure the kernel:
make menuconfig
Compile the kernel(using 8 cpu-cores) and create a Debian-package
make-kpkg -j 8 --initrd kernel_image modules modules_image kernel_headers
