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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Announce: daily 2.5 BK snapshots
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>Since Linus does not do pre-patches anymore, he mentioned some time ago
>>it would be nice if somebody created an automated BK snapshot process to
>>make BK changes accessible between kernel releases.  I've done that.
>>
>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/
> 
> 
>>Questions and comments welcome.
> 
> 
> Heh, I've had something vaguely like this on NL.linux.org:
> 
> ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/linux/bk2patch/
> 
> Every 3 hours it creates a unidiff between the latest
> tagged version and the head of the bk tree, for both 2.5
> and 2.4.


Just to forestall other private responses [already gotten two], mine is 
slightly different than your's, and David Woodhouse's setup.  My goal 
was basically to create a daily pre-patch, complete with hacked 
EXTRAVERSION.  That's something that is familiar to testers (pre-patch 
form), and the snapshot is not so often that people will get buried in a 
flurry of patches and csets. can you say "2.5.30-bk439" ;-)

So I consider my dailies as a complement to your bk2patch and dwmw2's 
output, not redundant.  Programmers would probably find dwmw2's per-cset 
patches to be more useful, while testers and power users, and maybe 
maintainers, would prefer daily pre-patches to test and sync against.

	Jeff



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