Manual publish flow for the kernel catalog, designed for the current
no-CI, private-repo state of banger.
scripts/publish-kernel.sh <name>:
- Reads $BANGER_KERNELS_DIR/<name>/ (the canonical layout produced by
`banger kernel import`).
- Pulls distro / arch / kernel_version from the local manifest.
- Packages vmlinux + optional initrd.img + optional modules/ as
<name>-<arch>.tar.zst with zstd -19.
- Computes sha256 + size.
- rclone copyto -> r2:banger-kernels/<file>.
- HEAD-checks https://kernels.thaloco.com/<file> to catch
public-access misconfig before declaring success.
- jq-patches internal/kernelcat/catalog.json: replaces any prior
entry with the same name, then sorts entries by name.
- Prints next-step git+make commands; does not commit or rebuild
automatically.
Environment overrides RCLONE_REMOTE / RCLONE_BUCKET / BASE_URL /
BANGER_KERNELS_DIR for non-default setups.
docs/kernel-catalog.md covers the architecture (embedded JSON +
external tarballs), end-user flow, the add/update/remove playbook,
naming and tarball-layout conventions, the trust model (sha256 in
embedded catalog catches transport/swap; no signing yet), and where
the bucket lives.
README.md gains a kernel-catalog example next to the existing image
register example. AGENTS.md points at publish-kernel.sh and the docs.
.gitignore now excludes .env so accidental drops of R2 credentials
don't follow into commits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
