One Of Ubuntu's Great Features Has Been Broken For One Month

[phoronix]

Phoronix: One Of Ubuntu's Great Features Has Been Broken For One Month

One of the great niche features of Ubuntu Linux has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA that's been maintained by Canonical for providing daily kernel builds of the Linux Git kernel state as well as of all point releases and release candidates. Sadly it's now been broken for one month for this very convenient feature...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mainline-Linux-PPA-Still-Busted

[fitzie]

here are the "vanilla" kernel repos for fedora.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

from https://www.leemhuis.info/files/kern...repostatus.txt :

The kernel vanilla repositories for Fedora[1] currently offer the following kernels
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kerne...a_Repositories

fedora 37 6.5.11-150.vanilla.fc37
fedora 38 6.5.11-250.vanilla.fc38
fedora 39 6.5.11-350.vanilla.fc39
fedora rawhide 6.7.0-0.rc1.415.vanilla.fc40
stable 37 6.6.1-150.vanilla.fc37
stable 38 6.6.1-250.vanilla.fc38
stable 39 6.6.1-350.vanilla.fc39
stable rawhide 6.7.0-0.rc1.415.vanilla.fc40
stable-rc 37 6.6.1-150.vanilla.fc37
stable-rc 38 6.6.1-250.vanilla.fc38
stable-rc 39 6.6.1-350.vanilla.fc39
stable-rc rawhide 6.7.0-0.rc1.415.vanilla.fc40
mainline-wo-mergew 37 6.7.0-0.rc1.115.vanilla.fc37
mainline-wo-mergew 38 6.7.0-0.rc1.215.vanilla.fc38
mainline-wo-mergew 39 6.7.0-0.rc1.315.vanilla.fc39
mainline-wo-mergew rawhide 6.7.0-0.rc1.415.vanilla.fc40
mainline 37 6.7.0-0.rc1.115.vanilla.fc37
mainline 38 6.7.0-0.rc1.215.vanilla.fc38
mainline 39 6.7.0-0.rc1.315.vanilla.fc39
mainline rawhide 6.7.0-0.rc1.415.vanilla.fc40
next 37 6.7.0-0.0.next.20231113.115.vanilla.fc37
next 38 6.7.0-0.0.next.20231113.215.vanilla.fc38
next 39 6.7.0-0.0.next.20231113.315.vanilla.fc39
next rawhide 6.7.0-0.0.next.20231113.415.vanilla.fc40

Created: Mon Nov 13 07:43:48 UTC 2023
[recreated at least once every 24h]

[nickbailuc]

does Debian have daily builds of linux/git like this? The `experimental` branch doesnt seem to have kernels

[Danny3]

does Debian have daily builds of linux/git like this? The `experimental` branch doesnt seem to have kernels

Daily no, but the Linux kernel in the unstable and even the testing repository are not far behind mainline.

[EphemeralEft]

Michael

I don’t mean this in a judgemental way, I’m just curious about your reasoning: do you really prefer giving up the ability to customize your Kconfig options and/or optimize the code for your hardware, for the convenience of skipping the 10-20 minutes to compile?

I know you can (and do) compile the kernel yourself when you want to change Kconfig options or apply downstream patches, but new Kconfig options are added constantly. Does Canonical always choose the options that you’re satisfied with?

[varikonniemi]

It's all fine to report on it happening, but why not report on the reason for it? Or are you saying that there exists no reason, it's just how things are in ubuntu land!?

[pinguinpc]

In this topic appear more information:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2492303

in irc logs appear answer to this situation

Eickmeyer: mainline builds are broken atm due to internal infrastructure moves. no eta for a fix yet.

however xanmod appear to the rescue

https://xanmod.org/#apt_repository

[Barley9432]

This has been broken for a lot more than a month collectively. Maybe a month in a row now, but it has gone down multiple times for long period of times (>1 week) during this year when I've tried to use it.

[ehansin]

here are the "vanilla" kernel repos for fedora.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

from https://www.leemhuis.info/files/kern...repostatus.txt :

I'm more of a Fedora user currently. I was not aware of this, so thanks. I always just run what I am given, but I think this would be fun running some new kernels (Bcahcfs anyone?), and maybe a step towards compiling some of my own kernels. I've used Debian/Ubuntu, but the whole OS of the later having so much Snaps involved has kind of turned me off (until I can be convinced other wise!). We are RHEL at work anyway (even if I do not manage this stuff), so Fedora fits for that. Now, I have a single-boot laptop I am looking to wipe clean, thinking of Arch again for that just because. It may or may not stick around, does not matter; ) Anyway, this cool so thank you!

[slalomsk8er]

Michael

I don’t mean this in a judgemental way, I’m just curious about your reasoning: do you really prefer giving up the ability to customize your Kconfig options and/or optimize the code for your hardware, for the convenience of skipping the 10-20 minutes to compile?

I know you can (and do) compile the kernel yourself when you want to change Kconfig options or apply downstream patches, but new Kconfig options are added constantly. Does Canonical always choose the options that you’re satisfied with?

Maybe it's easier to integrate with the test suite and allows for fast comparison of kernels on one of the major distributions?