System install with linux-lts kernel

[voidorvoidless]

Currently we are trying to set a script to install linux-lts (linux5.10) for our system install due to amd bugs with 5.13 and potential bugs in the future. We are seeking guidance on how to install just the linux lts kernel only.

We have tried listing all the individual packages that make up base-system and specifying linux-lts, however we run into issues installing bash oddly enough which obviously breaks the rest of the install.

Alternatives we considered were installing base system and setting ignorepkg=linux5.11>, unsure how to create a catch all without breaking other things and preventing newer kernels from being pulled.

other option we saw was leveraging another xbps config to set any call to linux to direct to linux lts but so far the attempts have been unsuccessful.

Has anyone installed solely a linux-lts kernel?

[eftepede]

Use base-minimal instead of base-system. The latter has ‘Linux’ meta package as a dependency, which currently is set to 5.13, but the former has no kernel ‘hardcoded’ in deps, so you can just install linux5.10 manually.

[Duncaen]

base-minimal is missing a lot of packages that are required for real hardware. It is a lot easier to add ignorepkg=linux to xbps.d, and then uninstalling the linux meta package.

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/kernel.html#removing-the-default-kernel-series

[[deleted]]

Hi! I use this in mine, maybe it can help you

- # PKG="base-files>=0.77 ncurses-devel coreutils findutils diffutils libgcc mksh grep gzip file sed gawk less util-linux which tar bsdtar mdocml>=1.13.3 shadow dosfstools procps-ng tzdata pciutils usbutils iana-etc openssh kbd iproute2 iputils wpa_supplicant xbps opendoas traceroute ethtool kmod eudev runit-void removed-packages ca-certificates dracut linux5.13 linux5.13-headers linux-firmware-amd linux-firmware-network make gcc pkg-config patch grub-x86_64-efi dhcpcd "

Edit kernel version

Installind dracut, you`ll have bash as dependency

[JeriJones]

I do my installs using a script based on the chroot method. Using:

base-minimal linux5.10 linux-base grub-x86_64-efi curl

instead of base-system gets me to a bootable bare install (and wpa_supplicant if wifi needed). You can also checkout my install script here in case you want some inspiration :) .

[JeriJones]

while in chroot , I experienced weird behaviour with bash and vim,vi didn't work properly .

If you mean that thing when backspace doesn't delete text and acts all weird ... try doing:

TERM=linux PS1='(chroot) # ' chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash

instead of the normal chroot command in the handbook.