On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:09:32AM -0700, Greg KH 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. > > 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 :) There are no binaries here. It's just rules how to build things. With downloading the tarball as a first step. > > 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. Really? Different versions for autoconf/automake/libtool etc. introduce an amount of uncertainty I'm not really comfortable with. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- 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
