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Re: Patches

To: Jim Mostek <mostek@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Patches
From: lord@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:47:22 -0600
Cc: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Beavis), linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:41:31 CST
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Jim I think he means source patches - thats a whole different ball of wax
from RPMs.

Would a cvs update on top of an existing 2.3.99-pre2 kernel tree work
in any way - probably not because of the versioning in all the files.
A sparse tree would work though.

Steve

> 
> Our current plan is to not make rpms available until the code
> is more stable and we are at "beta".
> 
>       What I did for some of the demos was just tar up the cmd and linux
> directories and gzip them.  This turned into a reasonable thing to ftp in,
> ungzip, untar, ...
> 
> But, ...
> 
> Russell, could be build a tool to do this?
> 
> How about a script that runs after we update  the cvs tree:
> 
> tar -cf cmd.tar cmd
> tar -cf linux.tar linux
> gzip cmd.tar
> gzip linux.tar
> 
> Or do you think it would be easier to just create the rpms?
> 
> Jim
> 
> >
> >Dear All
> >Where can I download patches for kernel-2.3.99-pre2
> >I have a modem connection and it will take me a lot of time
> >to download a full tree
> >Best Regards
> >



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