Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Nick Piggin]

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


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