From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933094Ab1KHTNI (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:08 -0500 Received: from gerolde.archlinux.org ([66.211.214.132]:36485 "EHLO archlinux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754712Ab1KHTNH (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:07 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 356 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:13:07 EST Message-ID: <4EB97DD2.7000209@archlinux.org> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:06:58 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.2-rc1 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBA7DEB0D1472A961CC83F5F7" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBA7DEB0D1472A961CC83F5F7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 08.11.2011 03:10, schrieb Linus Torvalds: > Which brings me to a question I already asked on G+ - do people really > need the old-fashioned patches? The -rc1 patch is about 22MB gzip-9'd, > and part of the reason is that all those renames cause big > delete/create diffs. We *could* use git rename patches, but then you'd > have to apply them with "git apply" rather than the legacy "patch" > executables. But as it is, the patch is almost a third of the size of > the tar-ball, which makes me wonder if there's even any point to such > a big patch? =46rom a distro packager's point of view, I can say this: For packaging, we always use the latest .0 release tarball and patch it with the -stable patch files from kernel.org. It would be desirable if those would keep working with GNU patch - not necessary though because 'git apply' doesn't require a git repository. When packaging development versions of the kernel, it is much easier to pull the lastest code directly from the git tree, so I never needed the patch files for the -rc's. --------------enigBA7DEB0D1472A961CC83F5F7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREIAAYFAk65fdIACgkQEda5KzHP/VAExACgjJXeumtlSOBiCACCFUoo4urk b/QAnA3PIGNqNhxPf62+N9MgtTkr19yC =j2d3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBA7DEB0D1472A961CC83F5F7--