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    SubjectRe: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
    Hi Phillip,

    On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:37:41 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
    > Embedded and enterprise distro users are usually stuck on ancient kernels that
    > were downloaded from kernel.org and patched *years ago*. The reason they're
    > stuck on them is due to local modifications, and so they're not going to be
    > downloading ancient vanilla kernels from kernel.org now.

    They perfectly could. This is exactly what we're doing at Suse and I can
    easily imagine other companies follow the same model. We store our
    local changes as patches on top of the old kernel version. When a new
    developer joins the team and needs to setup a working tree, our setup
    script gets the patches from our internal repository, fetches the
    relevant kernel tarball from kernel.org, unpacks it and applies all the
    patches.

    This is one of the reasons why others have been claiming in this
    discussion: it would be weird if files which were previously available
    would suddenly disappear. We can discuss the cost and benefits of any
    change done to the tree structure, compression formats etc. but please
    do not assume that nobody is downloading the old files from kernel.org.

    Personally I wouldn't mind at all if old files would disappear and our
    tools have to be adjusted accordingly, as long as it happens only once
    in a long while and not on a regular basis by (broken) design.

    --
    Jean Delvare


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