Re: linux-next: Tree for May 12

[Randy Dunlap]

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:22:05 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:18 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > > News:  I am now providing patches relative to the latest tag in Linus'
> > > tree.  I propose to stop providing complete tar balls as they are so
> > > large and people will have recent versions of Linus's tree anyway (I
> > > assume).  The patches will be named "patch-<upstream tag>-<next tag>".
> > Oh well.  For the record, I don't mind using patches instead of
> > complete tarballs, but I would prefer that the patches be relative
> > to something like a daily -git snapshot so that using git is not
> > required at all.
>
> They will be relative to a tag that Linus adds to his tree and those
> tagged trees are always available as tar balls.  i.e. yesterdays patches
> were relative to 2.6.26-rc1, today's (and until rc3 comes out) will be
> relative to 2.6.26-rc2. Or I could do them against the daily -git
> snapshots (or both).  Either way it would cut down on the amount of stuff
> I am distributing. Currently there is already about 6G of linux-next
> tarballs.

That sounds fine.  Relative to -rc's is good IMO (and for my scripts).

> I certainly don't want to make it harder for those who are doing such
> good job of testing. Does that make it clearer?

Yes.  Thanks.

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~Randy
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