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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803212216170.10642@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:16:45 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?


On Mar 21 2008 13:41, 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 ...

In that case, why not directly parse the directory and
do away with LATEST-IS-* ...
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