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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] linux-stubdomain: Compile Linux
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:28:37 +0100
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On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:08 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >> >> +LINUX_URL=ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/$(LINUX_V).tar.xz
> >> >> +
> >> >> +all: $(VMLINUZ)
> >> >
> >> > I think it is best if we git clone it.
> >>
> >> Is that still true if unpatched 3.18.6 works?  I don't know if there
> >> is a desire to reduce load on kernel.org, for example.
> >
> > That's a good point. I think git clone would be more inline with any
> > other external project that we use.  However I'll let the other
> > maintainers decide on this.
> 
> It takes a *loooooooong* time to download a full Linux git tree, and
> it takes up a huge amount of disk space.  It would be a lot more
> convenient to be able to just download a tarball.

git clone --depth=<some small N> to create a shallow clone?

Ian.