On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2025-01-08 13:21:19 [-0500], John Kacur wrote: > > We've been doing this for 15+ years. Normally I would expect the package > > creators to come-up with a work around and not expect the people offering > > the packages to accomdate your packaging software. > > This does not mean it does not deserve to be fixed once people complain. > Debian and Fedora download the source package and host it themself so > they don't rely on upstream's copy of it. Other, such as buildroot or > Gentoo or even yocto download it on every request. > > > How many kernels back to you need to keep? Could we come up with a > > compromise where we keep the newest kernel, plus say the last 3 in the > > rt-tests directory before they get moved to the older directory? > > What I am asking is to either please keep all rt-tests releases in > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/ > > but this would also mean that the older folder becomes removed and this > might upset more people. > Then there is the alternative especially if you prefer to have only the > latest release on top to please keep all releases in > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older/ > > even the current one. This does not sound annoying, does it? The latter > is what I do with RT patches while I release them after people This option seems the least disruptive from my point of view. I am now keeping all versions including the current version in /pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older Thanks John > complained so I have the latest release in > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/$version/ > and > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/$version/older/ > > > John > > Sebastian > >
