On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 13:09, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:00:40AM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 03:46:26PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > 2011/11/2 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 03:05:52PM +0100, Benoît THÉBAUDEAU wrote: >> > >> Does anyone know if the udev tarballs will be put back on >> > >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev/ >> > >> > The current release is just here: >> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/ >> > >> > >> or should we rely only on git snapshots from now on? >> > >> > You can always just check out a git tag and do: >> > ./autogen >> > make >> > make distcheck >> > to get any tarball you need. >> > >> > > They will be put back there, please give us time. >> > >> > Not sure if all the old release tarballs will ever come back to kernel >> > org. Git is the better archive for that anyway. >> > >> > The new releases will be there for sure when the infrastructure is >> > ready. In the meantime, you can just get old releases from any of the >> > distros archives who stored them in their build systems with proper >> > checksums. >> >> That really depends on the use-case. All embedded Linux distributions that >> I know of rely on upstream to provide the tarballs. They should probably switch to build-from-git, if they rely on anything like that. > Why do they do this? If they are expecting that upstream's tarballs > will always be there to abide by the GPL, then they might wish to > reconsider that :) > >> And the big distributions only keep the versions they actually use and that >> changes all the time. >> So please upload the old tarballs again, once the infrastructure is ready. > > You can always create the old tarball yourself automatically from git if > needed. > > Anyway, it's being worked on, there's lots of other things to address > with kernel.org first, please be patient. Michael, honestly, I don't expect all the old 173 tarballs to come back anytime soon. I don't even know if the recent autotools do the right thing with the very old sources. It's more complicated with pre-built stuff in tarballs than it is with the simple git-tar export the kernel uses. Earlier versions we even build the tar by hand and not with 'make dist', I doubt that someone wants to go through rebuilding all that by hand. I don't have a trusted copy of any of the old tarballs, only git. We require PGP signing for all new tarballs on kernel.org and can probably not just restore the old ones, I can definitely not sign them for uploading unless there is something that makes absolutely sure they are not manipulated. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
