Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:41:36PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:13:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   just curious about this:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/pre-releases
> >
> > These were the -test kernels that preceeded 2.6.0.
> >
> > > given that it seems filled with really old 2.6.0 content, what's the
> > > value in it?  just curious.
> >
> > just curious about this:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic
> >
> > given that it seems filled with really old content, what's the
> > value in it?  just curious.
> >
> > ;-)
> 
> um ... i'm going to assume you were being facetious since i can
> certainly see the value in the very, very first "official" release of
> linux, while still not seeing the point in a directory labelled
> "pre-releases" which contains nothing but pre-2.6.0 patches that go
> back to 2003.  on the other hand, that *would* make sense under the
> Historic directory.

We even have
  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/old-test-kernels/

The directory you spotted contains the pre-releases of 2.6 .

When is something historic and when might people search for it at the 
old place?

But considering that one dir doesn't harm much I don't think there's 
much point discussing it further.

> rday
> 
> p.s.  and while i'm whining, would it be possible to clear the
> obsolete "LATEST-IS" files out of:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing
> 
> i have a script that grabs the latest rc tarball out of that
> directory, and it got confused by seeing more than one LATEST-IS file.
> not hard to work around but, still ...

For this you have to whine to the guy who places them there:

-rw-rw-r--  1 torvalds kernel         0 Mar  5 04:44 LATEST-IS-2.6.25-rc4
-rw-rw-r--  1 torvalds kernel         0 Mar 10 05:30 LATEST-IS-2.6.25-rc5
-rw-rw-r--  1 torvalds kernel         0 Mar 16 23:50 LATEST-IS-2.6.25-rc6

cu
Adrian

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