From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:43:13 -0400
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On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
>> What is needed for a mistake free bisect is a 'doesn't matter as long
>> as it matches' Makefile version that survives all the way through a
>> bisect run.
>
>I have a wrapper script I use for kernel builds that takes care of that
>(it also supports cross building and building some out-of-tree modules).
>Some snippets from that script below.
>
>BISECTING=
>if [ -e .git/BISECT_LOG ]; then
>        BISECTING=1
>fi
>[...]
>if [ "$BISECTING" ]; then
>        # The version in the next line may need updating before a bisect
>        sed -i "s/^SUBLEVEL = .*/SUBLEVEL = 31/" Makefile
>        sed -i "s/^EXTRAVERSION =.*/EXTRAVERSION = -bisect/" Makefile
>fi
>[...]
>make ...
>[...]
>if [ "$BISECTING" ]; then
>	# Revert Makefile to avoid errors on 'git bisect good/bad'
>        git checkout Makefile
Ahh, I see that now, which I was objecting to below.  I'll go quietly. :)
>fi
>
>I use the deb-pkg target and also set the .deb package version in the
>second hunk:
>KERNELDEBREVISION=$(grep "^git[- ]bisect" .git/BISECT_LOG | wc -l)
>
>This way I end up with a nice series of packages whose numbering matches
>the steps in .git/BISECT_LOG:
>linux-image-2.6.31-bisect_1_amd64.deb
>linux-image-2.6.31-bisect_2_amd64.deb
>linux-image-2.6.31-bisect_3_amd64.deb
>...
>
>Hope that help.
>
>Cheers,
>FJP

Yes, some of it will.  But thanks to fedora's broken disk partitioner, 
something I've been screaming about for a damned decade, my /boot partition 
isn't big enough to absorb a whole chain of those, hence the fixed version 
request.

This script would appear to need a restore function for the Makefile version 
because one of my 'git bisect bad's returned that it couldn't switch branches 
because of the handmade Makefile changes I'd done on the first build.  How 
have you been handling that?

-- 
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