Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:45:11 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2 |
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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:20, Sean wrote: >On Tue, September 20, 2005 10:25 am, Gene Heskett said: >> Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-) >> >> FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now. > >Gene, > >While kernel.org snapshots will no doubt be working again shortly, you >might want to consider using git. It reduces the amount you have to >download for each release a lot. > >It's really easy to grab a copy of git and use it to grab the kernel: > >mkdir kernel >cd kernel >wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 >tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 >cd git-core-0.99.7 >make install >cd .. > >git clone \ >rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ >linux > >cd linux >git checkout > > >The above is given as an attachment as well because of annoying word > wrap issues with the long url's. Anyway, after that you can stay > current with the latest Linus release with a simple "git pull". > >Cheers, >Sean
With my luck, then git will be modified the next day in a non-backwards compatible way. Murphy's Law you know. But I'll give it a shot anyway. Any idea how much disk it might need?
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