Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Date: Aug 20, 2007, 20:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20070820200914.GB11718@lug-owl.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231957450.6355@xanadu.home>

On Mon, 2007-07-23 20:10:23 -0400, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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> I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with.  I 
> recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier 
> or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some 
> patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc.  Then the result 
> was 
> cross checked with summary lists like this one: 
> 
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html
> 
> This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that 
> wasn't always trivial.

Some years ago, I also worked on old Linux releases. Have you found the tarballs in my directory at kernel.org?

MfG, JBG

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