Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 17:00, Matthew Dharm wrote:
>~/bin is in many people's paths in many distributions.

And that seems to have fixed it, its now pulling in a bunch of what
looks like uuenocded stuffs.Thanks Matt

>Matt
>
>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:57:59PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> check
>>
>> >cd kernel
>>
>> check
>>
>> >wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
>>
>> check
>>
>> >tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
>>
>> check
>>
>> >cd git-core-0.99.7
>>
>> check
>>
>> >make install
>>
>> check
>>
>> >cd ..
>> >
>> >git clone \
>> >rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gi
>> >t \ linux
>>
>> Well, things marched right along till I got to the line for git clone
>> etc.
>>
>> [root@coyote kernel]# git clone
>> rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>> linux
>> bash: git: command not found
>>
>> Humm, back up & find it put git stuff in /root/bin  ?????
>>
>> [root@coyote kernel]# /root/bin/git clone \
>> rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>  linux
>> /root/bin/git-clone: line 2: git-init-db: command not found
>> * git clone [-l [-s]] [-q] [-u <upload-pack>] <repo> <dir>
>>
>> So why did it put it in /root/bin?  It's there, but not in my $PATH.
>> And theres no "make uninstall" to clean up the install so I might be
>> able to cleanly fix the miss-fire...  Murphy rides again..
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
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>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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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
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