From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965661AbdEOSpa (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2017 14:45:30 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.14]:52436 "EHLO smtp2.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935021AbdEOSp3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2017 14:45:29 -0400 Subject: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #40777] Re: Linux 4.12-rc1 (file locations) From: "Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT" Reply-To: kernel-helpdesk@rt.linuxfoundation.org In-Reply-To: <7d545d53-9d9d-02f7-f76d-04033669ef64@infradead.org> References: <7d545d53-9d9d-02f7-f76d-04033669ef64@infradead.org> Message-ID: X-RT-Loop-Prevention: linuxfoundation.org X-RT-Ticket: linuxfoundation.org #40777 X-Managed-BY: RT 4.4.0 (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) X-RT-Originator: konstantin@linuxfoundation.org To: rdunlap@infradead.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 14:45:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2017-05-14 13:59:22, rdunlap@infradead.org wrote: > On 05/13/17 13:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > One thing worth noting - I haven't uploaded diffs or tar-balls for > > this rc. Those should now be automagically generated by kernel.org for > > the rc's, but that also means that they won't be signed by my key. If > > you really care about signing, get the git repo and check the tag. > > > There was some delay (don't know how much), but a bigger problem is > the file(s) locations and (new) directory structure for them. This is intentional to indicate the transient autogenerated nature of these files. They don't exist in the /pub tree and therefore it is misleading to rewrite URLs to place them there. > Can the generated files please be put in the same places that (most or > all) previous releases have used? Not unless there is a convincing reason to do so (and please feel free to provide it, as this is not a final change and can always be undone should the counter-arguments be convincing). Regards, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Senior Systems Administrator Linux Foundation Collab Projects Montréal, Québec