linux-kernel - Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:41:36PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > 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

darned newbies.  :-P

rday
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