Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965117AbVITUpT (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:45:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965118AbVITUpT (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:45:19 -0400 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40]:22626 "EHLO vms040pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965117AbVITUpR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:45:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:45:11 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2 In-reply-to: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200509201645.11598.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: None, usuallly detectable by casual observers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200509201025.36998.gene.heskett@verizon.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1824 Lines: 56 On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:20, Sean wrote: >On Tue, September 20, 2005 10:25 am, Gene Heskett said: >> Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-) >> >> FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now. > >Gene, > >While kernel.org snapshots will no doubt be working again shortly, you >might want to consider using git. It reduces the amount you have to >download for each release a lot. > >It's really easy to grab a copy of git and use it to grab the kernel: > >mkdir kernel >cd kernel >wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 >tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 >cd git-core-0.99.7 >make install >cd .. > >git clone \ >rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ >linux > >cd linux >git checkout > > >The above is given as an attachment as well because of annoying word > wrap issues with the long url's. Anyway, after that you can stay > current with the latest Linus release with a simple "git pull". > >Cheers, >Sean With my luck, then git will be modified the next day in a non-backwards compatible way. Murphy's Law you know. But I'll give it a shot anyway. Any idea how much disk it might need? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/