linux-kernel - Re: kernel.org missing .1 incremental patches

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:23:42 +0100
From:	"Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@...il.com>
To:	"Rabin Vincent" <rabin@....in>
Cc:	"Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org missing .1 incremental patches

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:51:00PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote:
>> The incremental patches at
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/ seem to be missing
>> all .1 patches, for example there are patches to take 2.6.25 from
>> EXTRAVERSION = .2 to .17 but no patch for .0 > .1, attempting to apply
>> patch-2.6.25.1-2 to 2.6.25 will fail on the Makefile as it does not
>> have the correct starting version.
>>
>> I assume the patches are generated from a script and there is a bug,
>> easily worked around by downloading the full 2.6.25.1 tarball but the
>> full incremental set would be very useful for a project I am working
>> on.
>
> There are no incremental patches for .0 -> .1 in incr because those
> would be the same as the patch-2.6.xy.1.bz2 patches available at
> pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/.
>
> Rabin
>

Sorry, I should really have figured that out!

Andy
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