Re: kernel.org status: hints on how to check your machine for intrusion

Andreas Schwab
2011-10-01T20:30:05Z

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:

> I discovered that 002/022 are not the only differences. Adrian used
> to set 2.6.16.x at umask 000, and Linus changed the user in the
> tarballs several times (torvalds, then git, then root). I'm also
> seeing a certain greg/users for 2.6.11.x :-)

Obviously tarballs before 2.6.12 weren't created with git-archive and
will contain unpredictable timestamps.

Andreas.

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