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Message-ID: <rt-4.4.0-31806-1494873928-478.40777-6-0@linuxfoundation>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 14:45:28 -0400
From: "Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT"
<kernel-helpdesk@...linuxfoundation.org>
To: rdunlap@...radead.org
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #40777] Re: Linux 4.12-rc1 (file locations)
On 2017-05-14 13:59:22, rdunlap@...radead.org wrote:
> On 05/13/17 13:57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > One thing worth noting - I haven't uploaded diffs or tar-balls for
> > this rc. Those should now be automagically generated by kernel.org for
> > the rc's, but that also means that they won't be signed by my key. If
> > you really care about signing, get the git repo and check the tag.
>
>
> There was some delay (don't know how much), but a bigger problem is
> the file(s) locations and (new) directory structure for them.
This is intentional to indicate the transient autogenerated nature of these files. They don't exist in the /pub tree and therefore it is misleading to rewrite URLs to place them there.
> Can the generated files please be put in the same places that (most or
> all) previous releases have used?
Not unless there is a convincing reason to do so (and please feel free to provide it, as this is not a final change and can always be undone should the counter-arguments be convincing).
Regards,
--
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Senior Systems Administrator
Linux Foundation Collab Projects
Montréal, Québec
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