Hi everyone.

Need help, please.

Can anyone explain step by step how to build .deb for 4.14.0-8.2-liquorix-amd64 installation.
Due to my laptop have the best performance on 4.14.0-8.2-liquorix-amd64 kenrnel (UnixBench) it's a high urgency question =)

Thx
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There is a deb, and a repo, for liquorix. Ahd there are online tutorials on how to create deb packages, so there is no reason for someone to rewrite those for you here, just use a search engine and find one. If it's truly urgent, you should have already done this, but there may still be time if you start now.

There is even a legacy version maintained, check the sticky posts above.
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You can probably try reading this: blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/05/18/building-deb-packages-with-pbuilder/

There's some scripts to create the source package in the official github repo here: github.com/damentz/liquorix-package. You'll want to use make-debian-sources.sh to make the source files, then pbuilder to build it in a sanitized environment.

There's hundreds of details in-between, unfortunately, so you'll need to try it by trial and error. You'll also notice that I'm missing a build script in the liquorix github repo, that's because the script I use internally isn't entirely portable, so I'm working on making something more auto-magic that can be integrated into a build server.

But, the pbuilder instructions from the first link above should get you where you need to be.
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Thank you, damentz.
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Does that older version give you the best performance because it doesn't have the Meltdown kpti mitigation, which I seem to remember arrived in the 4.14 kernel about that time?

I think you can turn off kpti with a kernel boot parameter on the kernels that have it, if I'm reading the articles on Phoronix correctly. If that's the case, you can just do that with a more recent kernel to get the full speed out of the kernel.
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