Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.19.132-rt59

[Tom Zanussi]

Hi Steve,

On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 15:43 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:35:12 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm pleased to announce the 4.19.132-rt59 stable release.
> > > 
> > > This release is just an update to the new stable 4.19.132
> > > version and no RT specific changes have been made.
> > > 
> > > You can get this release via the git tree at:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-
> > > rt.git
> > > 
> > >   branch: v4.19-rt
> > >   Head SHA1: 1eebf4069aa37e54330cce9a42608517ea6996fe
> > > 
> > > Or to build 4.19.132-rt59 directly, the following patches should
> > > be
> > > applied:  
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> > 
> > But now I am confused, I completely missed announcements for
> > v4.19.127-rt55 to v4.19.131-rt58.
> > 
> > And for example -rt56 is not listed in
> > 
> > 
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.19/older/sha256sums.asc
> > 
> > ...aha, and the versions do not have signed tags, either:
> > 
> > pavel@amd:~/cip/k$ git show v4.19.131-rt58
> > fatal: ambiguous argument 'v4.19.131-rt58': unknown revision or
> > path not in the working tree.
> > 
> > Is that because they were created just as quick steps towards
> > -rt59?
> > 
> 
> Ah, I was about to say this is something that Kate keeps reminding me
> to add to the wiki, but looking, I already did!
> 
> https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/start
> 
> "Tagging policy of the PREEMPT_RT stable releases. Each PREEMPT_RT
> stable release is tagged with the version number of the upstream
> Linux
> stable kernel as well as its own â-rtâ counter that is appended. The
> -rt counter will increment for the following:
> 
>  - When forward ported to the latest upstream Linux stable version.
>  - When any merge with a upstream Linux stable causes a conflict.
>  - When a backport of the PREEMPT_RT development branch is done.
> 
> A backport will not be done with a forward port of a stable version.
> They will be done separately, and tagged separately."
> 
> Tom, I sign all tags, we probably should be consistent with that too.
> 

Yeah, so do I, it's just that the srt script doesn't push the
intervening tags (but does push the release tags).

Tom

> -- Steve