Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261309AbTKODC0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:02:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261311AbTKODC0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:02:26 -0500 Received: from mail-03.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.35]:49330 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261309AbTKODCY (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:02:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB5973B.7040801@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:02:19 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Egger CC: Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailinglist Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air References: <200311112021.34631.andrew@walrond.org> <20031111235215.GA22314@work.bitmover.com> <200311131010.27315.andrew@walrond.org> <20031113162712.GA2462@work.bitmover.com> <1068766365.15965.228.camel@sonja> <3FB4A6B7.5040306@cyberone.com.au> <1068809923.15965.240.camel@sonja> In-Reply-To: <1068809923.15965.240.camel@sonja> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1361 Lines: 38 Daniel Egger wrote: >Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Nick Piggin um 10:56: > > >>Actually, at http://www.kernel.org/ there is a link to daily snapshots. >>There are also changesets generated every couple of hours at the "C" link >>at the right of the page. >> > >>Even if Linus doesn't release as often (doesn't he? I don't know), this >>is surely much better than pre BK. Maybe I didn't understand you right? >> > >Seems so. I assume you missed the "bandwidth constraint" part. Fetching >a whole snapshot every day is not even close to workable. The snapshots >in patch form are nice however patching forth and back is not really an >option. If svn doesn't get back up I'd be tempted to use rsync and use >vendor branches in my own SVN repository but this also seems far from >optimal to me. rsync alone doesn't cut it because there's no version >management and I've lost quite a few patches due to an not thoroughly >considered rsync use. > There are compressed incremental patches of the snapshots available: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/incr/ They average maybe 150KB per day. Nick - 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/