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Message-ID: <20080321175651.GC1434@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:56:51 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:41:36PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:13:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > just curious about this:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/pre-releases
> >
> > These were the -test kernels that preceeded 2.6.0.
> >
> > > given that it seems filled with really old 2.6.0 content, what's the
> > > value in it? just curious.
> >
> > just curious about this:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic
> >
> > given that it seems filled with really old content, what's the
> > value in it? just curious.
> >
> > ;-)
>
> um ... i'm going to assume you were being facetious since i can
> certainly see the value in the very, very first "official" release of
> linux, while still not seeing the point in a directory labelled
> "pre-releases" which contains nothing but pre-2.6.0 patches that go
> back to 2003. on the other hand, that *would* make sense under the
> Historic directory.
We even have
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/old-test-kernels/
The directory you spotted contains the pre-releases of 2.6 .
When is something historic and when might people search for it at the
old place?
But considering that one dir doesn't harm much I don't think there's
much point discussing it further.
> rday
>
> p.s. and while i'm whining, would it be possible to clear the
> obsolete "LATEST-IS" files out of:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing
>
> i have a script that grabs the latest rc tarball out of that
> directory, and it got confused by seeing more than one LATEST-IS file.
> not hard to work around but, still ...
For this you have to whine to the guy who places them there:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 torvalds kernel 0 Mar 5 04:44 LATEST-IS-2.6.25-rc4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 torvalds kernel 0 Mar 10 05:30 LATEST-IS-2.6.25-rc5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 torvalds kernel 0 Mar 16 23:50 LATEST-IS-2.6.25-rc6
cu
Adrian
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