Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 12:50:31 EST


On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 1/4/06, Nick Warne <nick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:40, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > > > I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5
> > >
> > > If you did that you did it wrong. The -stable patches are *not*
> > > incremental, they all apply to the base 2.6.x kernel.
> >
> > nick@linuxamd:kernel$ ls -lsa | grep patch
> >
> > 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 20572 2005-11-11 06:07 patch-2.6.14.2
> > 48 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 46260 2005-11-24 22:15 patch-2.6.14.3
> > 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 22725 2005-12-15 00:27 patch-2.6.14.3-4
> > 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 18651 2005-12-27 00:29 patch-2.6.14.4-5
> >
>
> $ ncftp ftp.kernel.org
> NcFTP 3.1.9 (Mar 24, 2005) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
> Connecting to 204.152.191.37...
> Welcome to ftp.kernel.org.
> Logging in...
> <-- snip -->
> ncftp / > cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
> Directory successfully changed.
> ncftp /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 > ls -l patch-2.6.14.?.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 536 536 2841 Nov 9 01:01 patch-2.6.14.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 536 536 6566 Nov 11 06:07 patch-2.6.14.2.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 536 536 13849 Nov 24 22:15 patch-2.6.14.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 536 536 21012 Dec 15 00:27 patch-2.6.14.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 536 536 25943 Dec 27 00:29 patch-2.6.14.5.gz

but the incremental patches do appear to be in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/

who generates these? are they automated?

--
~Randy
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