Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

From: Nick Piggin (piggin_at_cyberone.com.au)
Date: 11/15/03

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To: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>

    Daniel Egger wrote:

    >Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Nick Piggin um 10:56:
    >
    >
    >>Actually, at http://www.kernel.org/ there is a link to daily snapshots.
    >>There are also changesets generated every couple of hours at the "C" link
    >>at the right of the page.
    >>
    >
    >>Even if Linus doesn't release as often (doesn't he? I don't know), this
    >>is surely much better than pre BK. Maybe I didn't understand you right?
    >>
    >
    >Seems so. I assume you missed the "bandwidth constraint" part. Fetching
    >a whole snapshot every day is not even close to workable. The snapshots
    >in patch form are nice however patching forth and back is not really an
    >option. If svn doesn't get back up I'd be tempted to use rsync and use
    >vendor branches in my own SVN repository but this also seems far from
    >optimal to me. rsync alone doesn't cut it because there's no version
    >management and I've lost quite a few patches due to an not thoroughly
    >considered rsync use.
    >

    There are compressed incremental patches of the snapshots available:
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/incr/
    They average maybe 150KB per day.

    Nick

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