From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261280AbVGTOxk (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261341AbVGTOvl (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:51:41 -0400 Received: from mail.portrix.net ([212.202.157.208]:19367 "EHLO zoidberg.portrix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261280AbVGTOta (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:49:30 -0400 Message-ID: <42DE6472.9080808@ppp0.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:49:22 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rbt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Automating Kernel Builds References: <1121869302.8610.10.camel@athop1.ath.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <1121869302.8610.10.camel@athop1.ath.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org rbt wrote: > I have a script that automatically builds kernels for testing. Would it > be possible to put the kernel version number (2.6.12.3) into the > 'LATEST-IS-VERSION' file on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ > or, is there some other file that traditionally has stored this info? I > searched the repository but could not find one. > > As of now, my script goes to the site and parses the page searching for > a line that contains 'LATEST-IS' and then breaks that line apart and > attempts to extract the kernel version number from it. If > LATEST-IS-VERSION actually contained the version number (2.6.12.3) > instead of being a 0 byte file as it is now, then it my script could > simply read it and not have to do funky html parsing to get the latest > version number ;) Some things from the top of my mind: a) /\d+\.\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?/ b) use ftp:// c) http://kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml d) http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner ps: you know http://l4x.org/k/ and kerncomp.sf.net? -- Jan