Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Olaf Dietsche
2002-01-29T18:34:13Z

Hi John,

John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com> writes:

> I am currently writing code to scan the usual places for linux patches
> and automatically add them to our databases. This would be really
> simplified by having patches sent to us. And, since we already have a

How about extracting patches from lkml with procmail?

---cut here-->8---
:0 :
* ^sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
* ^subject:.*patch
{
:0 Bc:
* ^--- .*/
* ^+++ .*/
linux-kernel-patches
}
---8<--cut here---

This recipe has its limits, but it's a start.

Regards, Olaf.