Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 1999 15:45:10 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Where's the patch to 2.2.0? |
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Hi there.
> thanx for your (and others) help, it's now clear to me. > My problem was not the mixup with 'pre9'/'final' and 'final'/'' > but with directory sorting! I always looked at the bottom of the > directory for new patches and therefore missed the '-final' file > as it is somewhere in the middle...
I always use the -rt option to sort everything into time order, so the bottom of the listing is then the correct place for the latest patch.
Q> # cd /sun/Mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1 Q> # ls -Glrt | cut -b 24- | tail -20 Q> 13027588 Jan 19 01:52 linux-2.2.0-pre8.tar.gz Q> 249818 Jan 19 01:52 patch-2.2.0-pre8.gz Q> 10538971 Jan 19 01:52 linux-2.2.0-pre8.tar.bz2 Q> 344 Jan 19 01:52 linux-2.2.0-pre8.tar.gz.sign Q> 344 Jan 19 01:52 linux-2.2.0-pre8.tar.bz2.sign Q> 344 Jan 19 01:52 patch-2.2.0-pre8.gz.sign Q> 344 Jan 19 01:52 patch-2.2.0-pre8.bz2.sign Q> 173903 Jan 21 06:42 patch-2.2.0-pre9.bz2 Q> 206178 Jan 21 06:42 patch-2.2.0-pre9.gz Q> 344 Jan 21 06:42 patch-2.2.0-pre9.gz.sign Q> 344 Jan 21 06:42 patch-2.2.0-pre9.bz2.sign Q> 13076831 Jan 21 06:42 linux-2.2.0-pre9.tar.gz Q> 10588011 Jan 21 06:42 linux-2.2.0-pre9.tar.bz2 Q> 344 Jan 21 06:42 linux-2.2.0-pre9.tar.gz.sign Q> 344 Jan 21 06:42 linux-2.2.0-pre9.tar.bz2.sign Q> 25024 Jan 26 01:41 patch-2.2.0-final.gz Q> 23248 Jan 26 01:41 patch-2.2.0-final.bz2 Q> 344 Jan 26 01:41 patch-2.2.0-final.gz.sign Q> 344 Jan 26 01:41 patch-2.2.0-final.bz2.sign Q> 0 Jan 26 01:42 LATEST-IS-2.2.0 Q> #
There they are, down at the bottom of the list...
> As someone wrote, > 'Linus was a bit distracted when he came up with that lot' > and, > 'ARGH.'
8-)
Best wishes from Riley.
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