Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org overloaded :-( | Date | Tue, 01 Sep 1998 01:06:27 +1000 |
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:52:18 +0200 (MET DST), Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@lightside.ddns.org> wrote: >On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Edward S. Marshall wrote: >> Even better: just store the most recent complete tarball. >And whenever someone has to go back to some ancient kernel to see where a >problem begins, what does he do? Get and reverse all patches, instead of >some tarballs?
Use PRCS or CVS or any other change tracking system. A complete prcs tree of 2.1 from 2.1.42 through 2.1.119 with a fair number of local branches (172 versions in total) takes 83MB uncompressed. Since the 2.1.119 uncompressed source is 50MB and a single compressed tar ball is 10MB, that is a fair trade off. I can pick out any version I want with 3 commands :-
mkdir /usr/src/version cd /usr/src/version prcs checkout linux-2.1 version
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