Re: kernel.org missing .1 incremental patches

From: Rabin Vincent
Date: Tue Sep 30 2008 - 15:17:33 EST


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:51:00PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> The incremental patches at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/ seem to be missing
> all .1 patches, for example there are patches to take 2.6.25 from
> EXTRAVERSION = .2 to .17 but no patch for .0 > .1, attempting to apply
> patch-2.6.25.1-2 to 2.6.25 will fail on the Makefile as it does not
> have the correct starting version.
>
> I assume the patches are generated from a script and there is a bug,
> easily worked around by downloading the full 2.6.25.1 tarball but the
> full incremental set would be very useful for a project I am working
> on.

There are no incremental patches for .0 -> .1 in incr because those
would be the same as the patch-2.6.xy.1.bz2 patches available at
pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/.

Rabin
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