Re: stupid kernel question
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:09:25PM -0500, Craig T. Milling wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> >
> > It's annoying that there doesn't seem to be an rsync mirror of the kernel
> > tree, since one could use that after applying patches to make sure
> > everything was in sync...
> >
>
> for clarification, www.kernel.org lists an rsync tree
>
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/
>
> are you lamenting the lack of rsync://kernel.mirror.(com|edu|org|net)/ ?
No, I already knew about that. I meant "tree" as in the source tree for a
single kernel version, unpacked, not a tree of kernel versions. They let
you rsync a mirror of kernel.org's collection of tarballs. What I want is a
source tree I can rsync my untarred kernel source against.
This would be useful after doing the following:
tar xjf kernel.tar.bz2
patch < foo.patch
patch < bar.patch
patch < baz.patch
# mess with some stuff, and come back weeks later so you don't remember
# exactly what patches you've applied, so you can't patch -R.
rsync -avz --delete rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux-2.4.4 linux
# now your source tree is exactly what you'd have if you'd downloaded a
# 2.4.4 tarball and unpacked it into a clean directory, but you didn't have to
# take all that bandwidth to do it.
PowerPC users will know what I'm talking about, because the PPC developers
make their kernel trees available. See
http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml for how this works.
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