Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754028AbXHTUrI (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:47:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751964AbXHTUqw (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:52 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:46347 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751401AbXHTUqv (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree In-reply-to: <20070820200914.GB11718@lug-owl.de> X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Cc: Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070820200914.GB11718@lug-owl.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 31 On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-23 20:10:23 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with. I > > recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier > > or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some > > patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc. Then the result > > was > > cross checked with summary lists like this one: > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html > > > > This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that > > wasn't always trivial. > > Some years ago, I also worked on old Linux releases. Have you found > the tarballs in my directory at kernel.org? No, I didn't know about them. >From a quick look, I think I already captured everything you have prior v1.0 though. Nicolas - 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/