Re: rt-tests release tarball location

[John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> On 2025-01-08 13:21:19 [-0500], John Kacur wrote:
> > We've been doing this for 15+ years. Normally I would expect the package 
> > creators to come-up with a work around and not expect the people offering 
> > the packages to accomdate your packaging software.
> 
> This does not mean it does not deserve to be fixed once people complain.
> Debian and Fedora download the source package and host it themself so
> they don't rely on upstream's copy of it. Other, such as buildroot or
> Gentoo or even yocto download it on every request.
> 
> > How many kernels back to you need to keep? Could we come up with a 
> > compromise where we keep the newest kernel, plus say the last 3 in the 
> > rt-tests directory before they get moved to the older directory?
> 
> What I am asking is to either please keep all rt-tests releases in
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/
> 
> but this would also mean that the older folder becomes removed and this
> might upset more people.
> Then there is the alternative especially if you prefer to have only the
> latest release on top to please keep all releases in
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older/
> 
> even the current one.  This does not sound annoying, does it? The latter
> is what I do with RT patches while I release them after people

This option seems the least disruptive from my point of view.
I am now keeping all versions including the current version in
/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older

Thanks

John

> complained so I have the latest release in
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/$version/
> and
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/$version/older/
> 
> > John
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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