From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:10:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: Al Viro X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 24 02:10:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ID7yw-0003nN-07 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:10:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756222AbXGXAK0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752563AbXGXAK0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:10:26 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:38860 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752432AbXGXAKZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:10:25 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JLN009M8PTBCNA0@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca>; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:10:23 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Al Viro wrote: > 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