From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708201643450.16727@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070820200914.GB11718@lug-owl.de>

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

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

No, I didn't know about them.

>From a quick look, I think I already captured everything you have prior 
v1.0 though.


Nicolas