Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:43:52 +0100 (GMT) | From | Mike <> | Subject | Re: 3rd Party Patches / patches directory |
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> 1.) We describe a format for a patch description file. > > <snip good stuff> > > 2.) Writeing a few scripts they can update a local copy of all description > files by downloading the newest version and building a website from > the description files.
Is there any particular reason for downloading them all locally rather than just looking at the original site?
> The list of patches is maintained by hand by a > Maintainer to keep the archive clean (i.e. no bugfixes - again: this > is not thought for bugfixes - it's thought for improvements). > Yep.
> So we could have a allways up-to-date and clean archive of all patches to > the linux kernel. The traffic wouldn't be that much becouse the patches > temself are still at the primary site - the archive would conatin only the > metadata. > I suspect the traffic would still be fairly high, but if they go on kernel.org I doubt it'll notice too much
> We all prefer the mirrors, aren't we? > Not always. My nearest mirror is often 2-3 days late getting kernels, and I don't like waiting that long :)
-- Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>
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