From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751359AbVIUSb5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:31:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751360AbVIUSb5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:31:57 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:32262 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751359AbVIUSb4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:31:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4331A65B.90103@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:28:43 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2 References: <200509201005.49294.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20050920141008.GA493@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200509201025.36998.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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". But that pulls the current tree, doesn't it? Not the git release? For purposes of bug reporting and fixing, I would think that having some reproducible version is superior. If I say git3, anyone can get it, it would appear that "git pull" isn't as deterministic. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me