From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965123AbVITVj7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:39:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750791AbVITVj7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:39:59 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:23256 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbVITVj6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:39:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:39:54 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2 In-reply-to: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200509201739.55208.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: None, usuallly detectable by casual observers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200509201025.36998.gene.heskett@verizon.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:20, Sean wrote: >On Tue, September 20, 2005 10:25 am, Gene Heskett said: >> Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-) >> >> FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now. > >Gene, > >While kernel.org snapshots will no doubt be working again shortly, you >might want to consider using git. It reduces the amount you have to >download for each release a lot. > >It's really easy to grab a copy of git and use it to grab the kernel: > >mkdir kernel >cd kernel >wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 >tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 >cd git-core-0.99.7 >make install >cd .. > >git clone \ >rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ >linux > >cd linux >git checkout > > >The above is given as an attachment as well because of annoying word > wrap issues with the long url's. Anyway, after that you can stay > current with the latest Linus release with a simple "git pull". > >Cheers, >Sean Ok, once all thats done, then anytime I want a snapshot, go there and do a git checkout, then snapshot copy that dir to /usr/src/linux-$VERSION, copy the old .config in to this copy, add my build scripts and go? Anyway, I've just done the above, so we'll test it out right now. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.