Re: kernel.org udev tarballs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:00:40AM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 03:46:26PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > 2011/11/2 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 03:05:52PM +0100, Benoît THÉBAUDEAU wrote:
> > >> Does anyone know if the udev tarballs will be put back on
> > >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev/
> > 
> > The current release is just here:
> >   http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/
> > 
> > >> or should we rely only on git snapshots from now on?
> > 
> > You can always just check out a git tag and do:
> >   ./autogen
> >   make
> >   make distcheck
> > to get any tarball you need.
> > 
> > > They will be put back there, please give us time.
> > 
> > Not sure if all the old release tarballs will ever come back to kernel
> > org. Git is the better archive for that anyway.
> > 
> > The new releases will be there for sure when the infrastructure is
> > ready. In the meantime, you can just get old releases from any of the
> > distros archives who stored them in their build systems with proper
> > checksums.
> 
> That really depends on the use-case. All embedded Linux distributions that
> I know of rely on upstream to provide the tarballs.

Why do they do this?  If they are expecting that upstream's tarballs
will always be there to abide by the GPL, then they might wish to
reconsider that :)

> And the big distributions only keep the versions they actually use and that
> changes all the time.
> So please upload the old tarballs again, once the infrastructure is ready.

You can always create the old tarball yourself automatically from git if
needed.

Anyway, it's being worked on, there's lots of other things to address
with kernel.org first, please be patient.

greg k-h