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

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jul 24, 2007, 00:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231957450.6355@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Al Viro wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >  - v0.96 sources
> > 
> >  - v0.99.12 announcement
> > 
> >  - sources for v0.99.13{abcdefghij} (got k, don't know where the serie 
> >    ends) as well as announcements for all of them
> > 
> >  - all announcements for v0.99.14{a-z} except for pl14r
> > 
> >  - announcements for pl15c to pl15j, 1.0-pre1, and ALPHA-1.0.
> > 
> > Otherwise the archive appears fairly complete with almost 3 years of 
> > Linux development history captured in a 3MB pack file.
> 
> Umm...  IIRC, tar was unhappy with several tarballs on ftp.kernel.org.
> Do you have replacements (or instructions re combination of tar(1) options
> to make it eat them)?

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.

Nicolas