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SubjectRe: Where's the patch to 2.2.0?
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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