Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 17, 2011 21:16 UTC (Mon) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)
In reply to: Stable kernel 3.0.7 by chrisV
Parent article: Stable kernel 3.0.7

We are working on a way so that someone other than the sysadmin can upload new files to kernel.org, like we used to have in the past.

If you read the information posted to lkml about the rebuild of kernel.org, you will see that we have a new tool, and process, to do this.

It takes time to implement all of this, sorry.

Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 17, 2011 22:52 UTC (Mon) by rankincj (guest, #4865) [Link] (5 responses)

So does this mean that the "official" way of getting 3.0.7 is currently to clone the entire stable repository?

Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 17, 2011 23:13 UTC (Mon) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link] (3 responses)

"Official" in what way?

You can do it this way, yes. Better yet, just take an existing clone you have laying around, and suck in the 3.0.y branch only. Very small bandwidth, and all should be good.

If you know of a different way to get the 3.0.7 release at the moment, please let us know (besides emailing me directly and asking for the patch, which I've already done for a few people who asked very nicely.)

Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 17, 2011 23:28 UTC (Mon) by rankincj (guest, #4865) [Link]

I don't have a git tree, but I did originally try extracting the incremental patch using gitweb. I thought that might work (in a bandwidth-friendly sort of way), although in practice the results were slightly less than spectacular...

Did I get the gitweb command URL wrong, or something please?

Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 20, 2011 12:17 UTC (Thu) by chrisV (guest, #43417) [Link] (1 responses)

Rather than handing out patches to those who email you, and on the basis that if you give a man a fishing rod, you will feed him for life, you can get the kernel.org gitweb interface to do it. As someone else has said, you can get a patch to go from v3.0.4 to to 3.0.7 with:

wget "https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s..."

Or to go from v3.1-rc4 to v3.1-rc10 with:

wget "https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux..."

(In that case, Documentation/networking/scaling.txt throws up a reject when you apply the patch, which you have to fix by hand, because the git patch generator did not seem to deal correctly with non-ASCII quote/unquote characters in that file.)

You can use the torvalds branch to go from 3.0 to 3.1-rc10, although that's a big one, or between any other tagged versions. You can also use curl rather than wget, or a browser.

Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 21, 2011 0:05 UTC (Fri) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]

I really appreciate this - thank you! It's precisely what I was looking for and having no luck finding (there's definitely a mystery cult feel to git/kernel usage; despite owning the Loeliger book)

Stable kernel 3.0.7

Posted Oct 18, 2011 4:32 UTC (Tue) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]

> getting 3.0.7 is currently to clone the entire stable repository?

I guess using the --depth option could save some bandwidth. If you do it right after the announcememt --depth 1 should be enough, if newer commits exist getting the right depth might be trickier. But even if you are extra cautious a select a depth of several hundreds, the saving should still be significant.

Disclaimer: Untested guessing. On holidays with my phone only. Although it runs Linux I must admit I have not installed git.