Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755406Ab3FBSkz (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jun 2013 14:40:55 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:45536 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755016Ab3FBSkv (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jun 2013 14:40:51 -0400 Message-ID: <51AB9177.8000508@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:39:51 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.10-rc4 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 29 On 06/02/13 01:45, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Another week, another -rc. But this time (at least for now) only as a git > tree - for people actually using the tar-balls and patches, I apologize, > but I'm a complete moron, and didn't install kup, its perl dependencies, > and my kup release scripts on the pixel before the trip. > > And while I can read and write email, and git is fine with just a few > (flaky) kB/s internet throughput I have access to right now, installing > the perl packages etc seems to be a pipe dream. > > I suspect nobody actually uses the tar-balls and patches, since git is so > much more convenient and efficient, so hopefully nobody cares. But I'll > rectify the lack eventually. Hopefully within a day or two, as my "yum > update" actually completes. And if not in a day or two, then when I get > back home a few days later. I still use tarballs and patches, fwiw. I do expect that some day you will just completely drop doing those and I will handle that (with some changes). -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/