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

Willy Tarreau
2011-10-01T20:32:27Z

On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 10:29:54PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

I did not remember when the git-tar command was introduced, but your
comment makes a lot of sense ! We're not much interested in 2.6.11
anyway I think.

Regards,
Willy