Subj : Beaver de Pesky!
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Tue Jul 25 2017 15:29:34

Hello,

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:37:08 GMT, Maurice Kinal -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 NB>> Linux flakjacket 4.12.3-1-ARCH

 MK> How did you manage that?  I don't know enough about pacman to replicate
 MK> that particular upgrade.  When I tried it wouldn't update since the
 MK> kernel modules weren't updated to match.

I just followed the instructions for the raspi3 (but instead of using 
ArchLinuxARM-rpi-2-latest.tar.gz I used ArchLinuxARM-rpi-3-latest.tar.gz). 
Exactly what the end of that page says if you want a 64bit system.

Once you get to the last step where you insert the card into the raspi3, you 
login as root with password root. Change the root password, add a user and make 
sure to add them to the group 'wheel'. Then I deleted the default "alarm" user. 
Then just type "pacman -Syu" to upgrade the whole system to the latest 
packages. That gave me the latest kernel and compiled it during the upgrade. I 
just had to reboot afterwards.

Easy peazy! ;)

 MK> Same here but I hate wasting it for things that will never get used.
 MK> Anyhow it is the same situation with slackwarearm which is 32 bit so I
 MK> give Archlinux the edge simply because of the quantum leap to 64 bit.
 MK> Now I'll try building a native aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu toolchain and
 MK> see where that ends up.  If that works out the next step will be to
 MK> learn the bootloader so I can install a truly minimalized console based
 MK> aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu without *ANY* of the bloat.

You're going to make this a lot harder than it really is, aren't you? ;)

If you follow the instructions, it's easy. Then you can simply do something 
like "pacman -S base" and "pacman -S core" to see what packages were indeed 
installed, and uninstall the ones you don't want/need (using "pacman -Rsu" or 
something similar). It would still be 10x faster than the way you're going 
about it, however, there's no optimizing the code and compiling yourself - 
which seems to be something you still enjoy.

In that case, I don't blame you. Keep on keepin' on. I spent 10+ years 
compiling everything with Gentoo and FreeBSD only to eventually get tired of 
waiting, and waiting, and waiiiiiiting. ;)

Regards,
Nick

..... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."

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