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. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
