Re: 3rd Party Patches / patches directory

Mike (mike@oakley.keble.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:43:52 +0100 (GMT)


On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Clifford Wolf wrote:

> 1.) We describe a format for a patch description file.
>
> <snip good stuff>
>
> 2.) Writeing a few scripts they can update a local copy of all description
> files by downloading the newest version and building a website from
> the description files.

Is there any particular reason for downloading them all locally rather
than just looking at the original site?

> The list of patches is maintained by hand by a
> Maintainer to keep the archive clean (i.e. no bugfixes - again: this
> is not thought for bugfixes - it's thought for improvements).
>
Yep.

> So we could have a allways up-to-date and clean archive of all patches to
> the linux kernel. The traffic wouldn't be that much becouse the patches
> temself are still at the primary site - the archive would conatin only the
> metadata.
>
I suspect the traffic would still be fairly high, but if they go on
kernel.org I doubt it'll notice too much

> We all prefer the mirrors, aren't we?
>
Not always. My nearest mirror is often 2-3 days late getting kernels, and
I don't like waiting that long :)

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Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>

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