For those that are missing pre-patches: Jeff Garzik announced he had "created an automated BK snapshot process to make BK changes accessible between kernel releases"; since Linus is not doing pre-patches anymore.

They are available at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/

All BK changes not in the current 2.5 kernel release will be posted at this URL, in GNU patch form, on a nightly basis.

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From: Jeff Garzik
To: linux-kernel
Subject: Announce: daily 2.5 BK snapshots
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:52:50 -0400

Since Linus does not do pre-patches anymore, he mentioned some time ago
it would be nice if somebody created an automated BK snapshot process to
make BK changes accessible between kernel releases. I've done that.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/

All BK changes not in the current 2.5 kernel release will be posted at
this URL, in GNU patch form, on a daily basis. [snap happens at one
minute past midnight, California time] The full changelog log is also
extracted. Each time Linus releases a new kernel, the contents of this
directory will be wiped out.

Questions and comments welcome.

Jeff


From: Jeff Garzik
To: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: Announce: daily 2.5 BK snapshots
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:55:15 -0400

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Since Linus does not do pre-patches anymore, he mentioned some time ago
> it would be nice if somebody created an automated BK snapshot process to
> make BK changes accessible between kernel releases. I've done that.
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/

Two more details:

* Just like a pre-patch, the Makefile EXTRAVERSION is hacked to indicate
"-bk1", "-bk2", etc.
* I'll be setting up a process like this for 2.4, too, at the request of Marcelo


From: Rik van Riel
To: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: Announce: daily 2.5 BK snapshots
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:04:42 -0300 (BRT)

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Since Linus does not do pre-patches anymore, he mentioned some time ago
> it would be nice if somebody created an automated BK snapshot process to
> make BK changes accessible between kernel releases. I've done that.
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/

> Questions and comments welcome.

Heh, I've had something vaguely like this on NL.linux.org:

ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/linux/bk2patch/

Every 3 hours it creates a unidiff between the latest
tagged version and the head of the bk tree, for both 2.5
and 2.4.

cheers,

Rik


From: Jeff Garzik
To: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: Announce: daily 2.5 BK snapshots
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 16:17:13 -0400

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>Since Linus does not do pre-patches anymore, he mentioned some time ago
>>it would be nice if somebody created an automated BK snapshot process to
>>make BK changes accessible between kernel releases. I've done that.
>>
>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/
>
>
>>Questions and comments welcome.
>
>
> Heh, I've had something vaguely like this on NL.linux.org:
>
> ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/linux/bk2patch/
>
> Every 3 hours it creates a unidiff between the latest
> tagged version and the head of the bk tree, for both 2.5
> and 2.4.

Just to forestall other private responses [already gotten two], mine is
slightly different than your's, and David Woodhouse's setup. My goal
was basically to create a daily pre-patch, complete with hacked
EXTRAVERSION. That's something that is familiar to testers (pre-patch
form), and the snapshot is not so often that people will get buried in a
flurry of patches and csets. can you say "2.5.30-bk439" ;-)

So I consider my dailies as a complement to your bk2patch and dwmw2's
output, not redundant. Programmers would probably find dwmw2's per-cset
patches to be more useful, while testers and power users, and maybe
maintainers, would prefer daily pre-patches to test and sync against.

Jeff


From: Jeff Garzik
To: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: Announce: daily 2.5 BK snapshots
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:34:34 -0400

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>>Since Linus does not do pre-patches anymore, he mentioned some time ago
>>>it would be nice if somebody created an automated BK snapshot process to
>>>make BK changes accessible between kernel releases. I've done that.
>>>
>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/snap/2.5/

> Could we please settle on a directory that isn't in a people/
> directory, such as /pub/linux/kernel/v*/snapshot?
>
> I can create those directories and chown them to you.

I would like to test it for a while and see if Linus objects, before
doing so...

Jeff