2001-12-01 08:59:58

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Incremental prepatches

Hi everyone,

I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches
available. It looks for standard-named prepatches in the
/pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in
the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.

For example:

hera 86 % cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/incr/
hera 87 % ls -l *.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 177158 Nov 27 10:17
patch-2.5.1-pre1-pre2.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 102202 Nov 28 15:35
patch-2.5.1-pre2-pre3.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 52955 Nov 29 15:29
patch-2.5.1-pre3-pre4.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 53616 Nov 30 17:04
patch-2.5.1-pre4-pre5.gz

The naming and function of the patches should be obvious.

.bz2 and .sign files are available too, of course.

-hpa


2001-12-01 09:31:22

by jurriaan

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:59:07AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches
> available. It looks for standard-named prepatches in the
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.
>
BRAVO!!!!

An excellent idea, and long-awaited.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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2001-12-01 10:38:13

by Anders Fugmann

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

On 12/01/2001 09:59 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches
> available. It looks for standard-named prepatches in the
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.
>

Great.
While you are at it. Could you (when you have the time) extend the
system to include a patch between the last pre version and a final
version. Something like:

patch-2.5.1-pre8-2.5.2.gz
(when the time comes :-)

Regards
Anders Fugmann




2001-12-01 18:14:57

by Anton Altaparmakov

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

At 08:59 01/12/01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches
>available.

Fantastic! Thanks! Finally I can stop doing the diffs myself. (-:

Best regards,

Anton

>It looks for standard-named prepatches in the
>/pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in
>the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.
>
>For example:
>
>hera 86 % cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/incr/
>hera 87 % ls -l *.gz
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 177158 Nov 27 10:17
>patch-2.5.1-pre1-pre2.gz
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 102202 Nov 28 15:35
>patch-2.5.1-pre2-pre3.gz
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 52955 Nov 29 15:29
>patch-2.5.1-pre3-pre4.gz
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 kdist kernel 53616 Nov 30 17:04
>patch-2.5.1-pre4-pre5.gz
>
>The naming and function of the patches should be obvious.
>
>.bz2 and .sign files are available too, of course.
>
> -hpa
>
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2001-12-01 21:25:32

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: Anders Peter Fugmann <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Great.
> While you are at it. Could you (when you have the time) extend the
> system to include a patch between the last pre version and a final
> version. Something like:
>
> patch-2.5.1-pre8-2.5.2.gz
> (when the time comes :-)
>

I thought there was something I'd forgotten...

patch-2.4.16-pre1-final.gz is there now; others will be generated when
the time comes.

-hpa
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2001-12-01 22:22:35

by Matt Domsch

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Subject: RE: Incremental prepatches

> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental
> prepatches
> available. It looks for standard-named prepatches in the
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates
> incrementals in
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.

Fantastic! I was working on something similar in my spare time too, but it
wasn't complete yet. Good job!
Would you be interested in setting up a kdist-like list to email out the
changelog, diffstat, and incremental patch too as a product of the patch
generation script? That would increase the usefulness of comments like
"Alan - much merging" in the changelogs. Also, a script to update a web
page ala http://www.bzimage.org would make patch browsing really easy. I volunteer
to help if you like.

Thanks,
Matt

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2001-12-01 22:57:20

by Anders Fugmann

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

Thats about as perfect as it gets.

Regards
Anders Fugmann

On 12/01/2001 10:24 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>
> I thought there was something I'd forgotten...
>
> patch-2.4.16-pre1-final.gz is there now; others will be generated when
> the time comes.
>
> -hpa
>



2001-12-02 19:22:31

by Horst von Brand

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> said:
> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches
> available. It looks for standard-named prepatches in the
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.

Great! Thank you!
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2001-12-04 02:38:46

by Mike Fedyk

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Subject: Re: Incremental prepatches

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 06:14:16PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 08:59 01/12/01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches
> >available.
>
> Fantastic! Thanks! Finally I can stop doing the diffs myself. (-:
>

interdiff is great for that. Just take two patches against the same base,
and you get incremental patches. :)

mf