Incremental prepatches

Incremental prepatches

[H. Peter Anvin]

Hi everyone,

I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches 
available.  It looks for standard-named prepatches in the 
/pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in 
the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.

For example:

hera 86 % cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/incr/
hera 87 % ls -l *.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel     177158 Nov 27 10:17 
patch-2.5.1-pre1-pre2.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel     102202 Nov 28 15:35 
patch-2.5.1-pre2-pre3.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel      52955 Nov 29 15:29 
patch-2.5.1-pre3-pre4.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel      53616 Nov 30 17:04 
patch-2.5.1-pre4-pre5.gz

The naming and function of the patches should be obvious.

.bz2 and .sign files are available too, of course.

	-hpa

Re: Incremental prepatches

[Jurriaan on Alpha]

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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:59:07AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches 
> available.  It looks for standard-named prepatches in the 
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in 
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.
> 
BRAVO!!!!

An excellent idea, and long-awaited.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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Re: Incremental prepatches

[Anders Peter Fugmann]

On 12/01/2001 09:59 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches 
> available.  It looks for standard-named prepatches in the 
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in 
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.
> 

Great.
While you are at it. Could you (when you have the time) extend the 
system to include a patch between the last pre version and a final 
version. Something like:

patch-2.5.1-pre8-2.5.2.gz
(when the time comes :-)

Regards
Anders Fugmann

Re: Incremental prepatches

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <3C08B2FA.10709@fugmann.dhs.org>
By author:    Anders Peter Fugmann <afu@fugmann.dhs.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Great.
> While you are at it. Could you (when you have the time) extend the 
> system to include a patch between the last pre version and a final 
> version. Something like:
> 
> patch-2.5.1-pre8-2.5.2.gz
> (when the time comes :-)
> 

I thought there was something I'd forgotten...

patch-2.4.16-pre1-final.gz is there now; others will be generated when
the time comes.

	-hpa
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Re: Incremental prepatches

[Anders Peter Fugmann]

Thats about as perfect as it gets.

Regards
Anders Fugmann

On 12/01/2001 10:24 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 
> I thought there was something I'd forgotten...
> 
> patch-2.4.16-pre1-final.gz is there now; others will be generated when
> the time comes.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

Re: Incremental prepatches

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 08:59 01/12/01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches 
>available.

Fantastic! Thanks! Finally I can stop doing the diffs myself. (-:

Best regards,

         Anton

>It looks for standard-named prepatches in the 
>/pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in 
>the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.
>
>For example:
>
>hera 86 % cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/incr/
>hera 87 % ls -l *.gz
>-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel     177158 Nov 27 10:17 
>patch-2.5.1-pre1-pre2.gz
>-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel     102202 Nov 28 15:35 
>patch-2.5.1-pre2-pre3.gz
>-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel      52955 Nov 29 15:29 
>patch-2.5.1-pre3-pre4.gz
>-rw-rw-r--    1 kdist    kernel      53616 Nov 30 17:04 
>patch-2.5.1-pre4-pre5.gz
>
>The naming and function of the patches should be obvious.
>
>.bz2 and .sign files are available too, of course.
>
>         -hpa
>
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Re: Incremental prepatches

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 06:14:16PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 08:59 01/12/01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches 
> >available.
> 
> Fantastic! Thanks! Finally I can stop doing the diffs myself. (-:
> 

interdiff is great for that.  Just take two patches against the same base,
and you get incremental patches. :)

mf

Re: Incremental prepatches

[Horst von Brand]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:
> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental prepatches 
> available.  It looks for standard-named prepatches in the 
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates incrementals in 
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.

Great! Thank you!
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RE: Incremental prepatches

[Matt_Domsch]

> I have created a robot on kernel.org which makes incremental 
> prepatches 
> available.  It looks for standard-named prepatches in the 
> /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing directories, and creates 
> incrementals in 
> the corresponding /pub/linux/kernel/v*.*/testing/incr directory.

Fantastic!  I was working on something similar in my spare time too, but it
wasn't complete yet.  Good job!
Would you be interested in setting up a kdist-like list to email out the
changelog, diffstat, and incremental patch too as a product of the patch
generation script?  That would increase the usefulness of comments like
"Alan - much merging" in the changelogs.  Also, a script to update a web
page ala www.bzimage.org would make patch browsing really easy.  I volunteer
to help if you like.

Thanks,
Matt

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