# On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:37:54 -0700 (PDT),
# Jeremy Katz <katzj@technojunkie.com> wrote:
# >Okay, how's this for a thought... Linus has said many times that he would
# >prefer to distribute _just_ patches.
#
# At the risk of stating the obvious, what is stopping people who want
# the latest patch ASAP from subscribing to linux-kernel-patch? You get
# the patch delivered to your mailbox unless it is very large.
Just to add my $0.0010* to this, what I would really like to see is a
publically available cvs access for linus' tree (the current structure of
the kernel versioning would fit oh-so-nicely into it [including prepatch
testing]).
I currently do this for myself locally (as I managed a bakers dozen linux
boxes). It's nice to be able to
cvs co linux # for the latest
cvs co linux -r2.1.103 # for 2.1.103
cvs update -d # to get your current sources upto par
cvs update -d -r2.1.115 # " " " " " 2.1.115
or whatever.
I also like the idea of having ftp.kernel.org only allow patch downloads
to normal users. Mirror site admins could just use a global 'mirror'
account to grab the full tree.
Of course, just doing some ftp.kernel.org DNS overloading to the mirror
sites would work as a great starting point (or at least creating
ftp1.kernel.org, ftp2.kernel.org, etc ...).
--
* sorry, I don't remember floating point in binary off the top of my head.
G'day!
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