Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:13:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc2 | From | Tony Luck <> |
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@turknetserver.com> wrote: > I always use tarballs instead of git. Because; I have several Linux boxes > and just one time I download the kernel tarball then spreading it with scp > to other Linux boxes easily. Otherwise, I have to prepare a tarball by > myself to distribute it which is a time waste and unpractical. Also, getting > the whole 700-800 MB of kernel tree with git is not very Internet bandwidth > (Consider that in some ISPs and countries, Internet usage is limited by > monthly quotas.) friendly.
If you maintain a git tree, then at each release you will only need to pull a small amount (the git delta from the last time you pulled). It is then quite simple to make your own tarball to copy around your machines with:
$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=linux/ v3.0-rc2 | gzip > v3.0-rc2.tgz
So you have a one time large bandwidth investment to do the initial git clone, and then much less traffic for each update.
-Tony
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